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111Ames, Oakes — ▪ American businessman and politician born Jan. 10, 1804, Easton, Mass., U.S. died May 8, 1873, Easton leading figure in the Crédit Mobilier scandal following the U.S. Civil War. Ames left school at age 16 to enter his father s shovel… …
112Anastasius I, Saint — ▪ pope born , Rome? died Dec. 19, 401, Rome [Italy]; feast day December 19 pope from Nov. 27, 399, to 401, succeeding Pope Siricius. Anastasius earned the praise of St. Jerome (Jerome, Saint) (Letter 127) for censuring (c. 400) the… …
113Bandung Conference — ▪ Asia Africa [1955] a meeting of Asian and African states organized by Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan which took place April 18–24, 1955, in Bandung, Indonesia. In all, 29 countries representing more… …
114Blackmore, Sir Richard — ▪ British physician and author born 1654, Corsham, Wiltshire, Eng. died 1729, Boxted, Essex English physician and writer, physician in ordinary to King William III (who knighted him in 1697 for professional services) and Queen Anne. Though… …
115Burdett, Sir Francis, 5th Baronet — ▪ British politician born Jan. 25, 1770, Wiltshire, Eng. died Jan. 23, 1844, London English politician and a zealous and courageous advocate of reform who more than once endured imprisonment for his radical views; he later lost interest in… …
116Collier, Jeremy — ▪ English bishop born Sept. 23, 1650, Stow by Quy, Cambridgeshire, Eng. died April 26, 1726, London English bishop and leader of the Nonjurors (clergy who refused to take the oaths of allegiance to William III and Mary II in 1689 and who… …
117Dioscorus — ▪ patriarch of Alexandria born , Alexandria [Egypt] died Sept. 4, 454, Gangra, Galatia [now Cankiri, Tur.] patriarch of Alexandria and Eastern prelate who was deposed and excommunicated by the Council of Chalcedon (Chalcedon, Council of) in …
118Ellenborough, Edward Law, earl of, Viscount Southam of Southam, Baron Ellenborough of Ellenborough — ▪ British governor of India born Sept. 8, 1790, London, Eng. died Dec. 22, 1871, Southam Delabere, Gloucestershire British governor general of India (1842–44), who also served four times as president of the Board of Control for India and was… …
119English literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …
120Eyre, Edward John — ▪ British explorer and official born Aug. 5, 1815, Hornsea, Yorkshire, Eng. died Nov. 30, 1901, near Tavistock, Devon English explorer in Australia for whom Lake Eyre (Eyre, Lake) and the Eyre Peninsula (both in South Australia) are named. He… …
