BE
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BI
ters." An English writer ; a friend of
Horace Walpole, and one of his literary
■executors.
Berry, Miss Mary and Miss Agnes. Miss M. and 31iss A. B — ij.
Bertram, James G. Bev. William M. Cooper, B.A.
See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 352.
Besant, Walter, and Rice, James. W. B. and J. 11. ; Walter Maurice.
See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 352.
BeskOTT, Bernhard von. Baron, 1796-1868. Qvintiuus Carbasius. A Swedish poet, dramatist, and biographer; secretary of tlie Swedish Acad.
Best, John Richard; afterwards Beste, John Richard; afterwards Beste, John Richard Digby. An Eng- lish Catholic ; An Old Author in a New Walk. An English writer of the day.
Best, Rev. Robert. A Lancashire Minister. An English minister of the Independent Church, Kirkham.
Bethusy - Hue, Valesta, grafin. Moritz V. Reichenbach. A German novel- ist of the day.
Betts, Rev. Beverley Robinson. 1827-. The Librarian. An American scholar and clergyman ; b. in New York City ; Columbia Coll., New York, 1846 ; librarian there, 1865-80.
Betts, Rev. Henry John. A Pastor. An English clergyman.
Betty, Rev. Joseph, 1730-31. Parson B. An English clergyman ; Hart Hall, Oxford, 1717; Cornish fellow of Exeter Coll., 1720 ; poisoned himself with laud- anum to escape his creditors.
Bevan, E. F. E. F. B.
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Bevan, Rev. George Jones. A Countri/ Parson. An English clergyman ; of Worcester Coll., Oxford ; B.A., 1811.
Bevan, Robert Caspar Lee. E. O. L. B.
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Beverley, Robert, about 1675-1716. D. S., Natif et habitant du Pays de Vir- ginie. An American historian ; became clerk of the council of Virginia about 1697.
See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 352.
Beverley, Rev. Robert Mackenzie. A Saint, a Member of the University of Cambridge.
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Beyle, Marie Henri. Birkbeck; Salviati.
See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 352.
Biber, Rev. George Edvrard, LL.D. Ecclesiastes ; The Editor of ike " Bull."
See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 353.
Bickerstaffe, Isaac, about 1735-
1812C?). /. B. ; Ambrose Gwinet ; Nyky.
An Irish dramatist; at the age of eleven
he was appointed one of the pages to
Lord Chesterfield, then lord-lieutenant
of Ireland; between 1760 and 1771 he
produced a score of pieces for the stage ;
for many years he was admitted to the
most intellectual society, but afterwards
sunk into the deepest ignominy.
Bicltnell, Alexander (?), -1 796. Ed- ward Dorriiigton. An English author and industrious litterateur of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received their due meed of faint praise or ridicule in the " Monthly Re- view," and are now forgotten ; d. in the St. Thomas's Hospital, London.
Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814. C. B. An American " Quaker soldier " ; b. and d. in Philadelphia ; served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, and in the Whiskey Rebellion.
Biddulph, Rev. Thomas Tregenna. A Clergyman ; The Parochial Clergyman; The Parochial Minister ; The Churchman.
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Bielby, Mrs. Marie Le Baron.
Bigelow, Jacob, M.D., 1787-1879. One of the Committee of the American Academy. An American physician ; b. in Sudbury, Mass.; Harv. Univ., 1806 ; studied medicine and opened his office in Boston in 1810; professor in Harv. Univ., 1815-55; d. in Boston.
Bigelow, MelviUe Madison, 1846-. A Barrister. An American lawyer and poet ; b. at Baton Rapids, Michigan ; Univ. of Michigan, 1866 ; afterwards studied at Cambridge ; Ph.D., 1879.
Bigelovr, Mrs. Poultney. Daniel Buxton. An American writer of the day.
Bigg, liOuisa. Louis Brand, An English writer of the day.
BigloAV, William. Harvard.
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Billingsley, Rev. John. A Protestant. An English clergyman, son of Rev. John (1657-1722) ; originally a dissenting minister at Dover; married a sister of Sir Philip Yorke, afterwards Lord-Chan- cellor Hardwicke; conformed, and ac- cepted a good living in the national church with a prebend in Bristol Ca- thedral.
Bingham, Peregrine, the Younger, 1788-1864. A Friend. An English legal writer, eldest son of P. Bingham, the Elder ; educ. at Winchester School and at Magdalen Coll., Oxford ; called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1818, and was for many years a legal reporter ;
