Biography Category
(Richard Nash), 1674–1761, Englishman of fashion. As master of ceremonies at Bath he was the recognized leader of society. He maintained his luxurio...
(fr ´b sh r) (KEY) , 1535?–1594, English mariner. He went to sea as a boy, and spent much of his youth in the African trade. He later gained the fr...
1900–1989, American author and educator, b. Washington, D.C. He was educated (1915–19) at St. Bees School, Cumberland, England, and did graduate r...
1866–1936, American educator, friend and teacher of Helen Keller, b. Feeding Hills, Mass. Placed in Tewksbury almshouse (1876), she was later admitt...
(f ´l p mä´n l f n f l´ nb rkh) (KEY) , 1771–1844, Swiss educator and agriculturist. He purchased (1799) an estate, Hofwyl (near Bern), where ...
1918–2003, American economist, b. Rome. Jewish, antifascist, and trained as a lawyer, he fled Mussolini’s Italy in 1938, settling in the United St...