Great Britain - Biography - Early works to 1800
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Memorials and characters, together with the lives of divers eminent and worthy persons . Consisting chiefly of a great Variety of the most celebrated Examples of Piety and Virtue, among the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, From the Year One Thousand Six Hundred to the present Time. Collected and compiled from above one hundred and fifty different authors, several scarce Pieces and some Original Manuscripts, communicated to the Editor. To which is added, an appendix of monumental inscriptions, in Latin and English. Likewise chronological tables, and an index to the whole.
Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- E-books
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Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons , from the reign of Edward the Third, to the Revolution. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant. By James Caulfield.
Caulfield, James, 1764-1826.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- E-books
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The jockey club; or a sketch of the manners of the age. Part the second
Pigott, Charles, d. 1794.Date: 1792- E-books
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British biography or, an accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff, who began the Reformation by his writings, to the present time: whether Statesmen, Patriots, Generals, Admirals, Philosophers, Poets, Lawyers, or Divines. In which The several Incidents and remarkable Actions of their Lives, and the Particularities of their Deaths, that could be collected from History, Family Memoirs, and Records, are related; a Catalogue of their Writings given, with occasional Remarks; and their Characters delineated with Freedom and Impartiality. Vol. I.
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- E-books
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The lives and characters of the most illustrious persons, who died in the years, 1713, 1714, and 1715. Viz. Dr. Compton, Bishop of London. Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester. Dr. Burnett, Bishop of Salisbury. Dr. Radcliffe. Thomas. Marquiss of Wharton. Dr. Burnett, Master of the Charter-House. J. Partridge, Gent. With true copies of their last wills and testaments
Date: [1716]