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1537?–1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knighted (1570) for his service in the campaigns in Irelan...
(g l´´ d t´, gô´l –) (KEY) , 1787–1851, American educator of the deaf, b. Philadelphia, grad. Andover Theological Seminary. In England and Fr...
1778–1838, English educator. In 1801 he founded a free elementary school, using a type of monitorial system for which he acknowledged his debt to An...
(y ´ l) (KEY) , 1810–94, American educator, b. Georgetown, D.C., grad. West Point, 1832; brother of Gen. R. S. Ewell. He taught mathematics at West...
1831–1908, American educator, first president of Johns Hopkins Univ., b. Norwich, Conn., grad. Yale, 1852. After serving as attaché (1853–55) of ...
(k n´ l ) (KEY) , 1861–1939, American electrical engineer, b. Bombay, India, educated at University College School, London. He was Edison’s chief...