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Sir Henry Taylor was a nineteenth century English poet and dramatist who also served his country in a number of official appointments. He was described as a “well-connected man of letters”. He was born on the 18th October 1800 in the north eastern village of Bishop Middleham. While still in infancy Henry’s mother died and his father George remarried, but not until Henry was 18 years ...
Sim Hun was the pen name used by a 20th century Korean writer, although this name is sometimes written as Shim Hum. He was a patriotic poet, novelist and playwright. He was born Sim Daeseop on the 12th December 1901 in Seoul. His high profile family, the name of which is Yangbang, can be traced back centuries with many of its members holding influential ...
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was a famous English poet and novelist whose work sometimes appeared under the simple pseudonym “Q”. His major life’s work was the compilation of a substantial collection of poetry called The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 which proved so popular that it was reissued to include poetry up to the year 1918. He influenced and inspired many other writers, ...
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet was an English poet, translator, playwright and wit who was also a well-known patron of the arts and literature during the Restoration period. He was much admired amongst other writers. He also served as a Member of Parliament. He was born sometime during March 1639 into a prominent and very wealthy Kentish family who resided in the village of ...
Sir Edward Dyer was a 16th century English poet and popular member at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born sometime during October 1543, the son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., at the family home of Sharpham Park which lies close to Glastonbury in Somerset. Information about his education is a little unclear, but it seems that he obtained a degree from ...
Sir George Etherege was well known as a 17th century English poet and playwright. He wrote light, witty plays such as The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, which appeared in 1664, and also a typically “Dandy” production of the times, The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676. He was born sometime during the year 1636 in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead. His ...
Sir Gilbert Parker, PC and 1st Baronet, was a Canadian poet and novelist who also made a name for himself in British politics and as a skilled propagandist during the First World War. He was born Horatio Gilbert George Parker on the 23rd November 1862 in Ontario, to an Army Captain. He was schooled initially in Ottawa before going on to University in Toronto. He went ...
Sir Henry Parkes, was an English-born poet who, after early struggles in his homeland, took his new wife to Australia in 1839 in search of a better life for the two of them. He had already shown political leanings in England and he soon took up politics in his new home, the colony of NSW, Australia. He went on to become well-known due ...
Sabine Baring-Gould was a scholarly English poet, priest and hagiographer whose considerable body of work includes the famous hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. This is the piece that he is most famous for but his output over a long lifetime ran to some 1240 different publications. He was a translator of ancient ecclesiastical scripts and is credited with a famous carol called ...
Saint Yared was a 6th century poet and musician who is generally regarded as being the greatest ever of his ilk to come out of Ethiopia. He holds the honour of being the inventor of the sacred music tradition that is still practiced today within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He also devised his country’s system of musical notation. The Ethiopian chant known ...
