Biography Category
(r n l´) (KEY) , 1843–1914, English jurist. He was a founder of the school of law at Oxford Univ. From 1899 to his death he sat in Parliament as a ...
(änän´) (KEY) , fl. 8th cent., Babylonian Jewish theologian, founder of the Ananites from whom the Karaites claim spiritual descent. He is said to ...
1836–1917, English physician. A sister of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth also worked for woman suffrage. With difficulty she obtained a privat...
1905–84, New Zealand British novelist and educator, b. Stratford, New Zealand. For years a teacher of Maori children, Ashton-Warner developed many s...
(zhäN l rôN´ däläNb r´) (KEY) , 1717–83, French mathematician and philosopher. The illegitimate son of the chevalier Destouches, he was named ...
( k ´b ) (KEY) , c.A.D. 50–c.A.D. 135, Jewish Palestinian religious leader, one of the founders of rabbinic Judaism. Although the facts of his life...