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 ...
