Ronald Ross was a multi-talented man whose, perhaps, minor achievements were in the field of literature. He was a poet, song writer and novelist but he is most famous as the British doctor who, while serving in India, discovered that the malarial parasite is carried by the mosquito. His pioneering, early-20th century work, was the forerunner to medical studies that would eventually ...
Robert Aytoun, whose name is sometimes spelled Ayton, was a Scottish poet whose panegyric, written in Latin to celebrate the accession to the English throne of King James VI, earned him considerable favour at court. He was knighted in 1612 and served as a private secretary to the royal households of James I and Charles I. He was born some time during the ...
Kingsley Amis was one of the great English writers of the 20th century. He was ranked 9th of the top fifty post-war British writers by The Times newspaper when they published the list in 2008. As well as being a poet, with an output of six separate volumes of poetry, he was also a literary critic. Additionally he wrote some twenty comic ...
Sacheverell Sitwell was the youngest of the famous trio of artists and writers known as “The Sitwells”, the other two being Sir Osbert Sitwell who was also a poet and journalist, and literary critic and poet Dame Edith Sitwell. Sacheverell, as well as being a poet, was a prominent music and art critic and was also an expert in baroque ...
Samuel Ferguson was a 19th century Irish poet, who was also a public servant and barrister who, for his work as Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, received a knighthood in 1878. This post came after he had retired from the bar some eleven years earlier. Many critics regard him as the stand out Irish poet of his time and he was, almost ...
