Alfred Domett was a 19th century English poet who also led a distinguished life as a colonial politician in New Zealand. For his work there he was awarded the CMG, the Companion Order of St Michael and St George, which was particularly in recognition of his time as Premier of the country. In almost thirty years of residence there he was a ...
Albert BenJamin Simpson, often referred to as simply A B Simpson, was a famous Canadian evangelical minister whose major achievement was the founding of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (generally known as the C&MA). When he set about the creation of this organisation in the 19th century his vision was that it should become simply a movement in world evangelism. The C&MA ...
Alfred Comyn Lyall was an English poet and historian who had a distinguished civil service career, much of which was spent serving in India and which led to his eventual appointment to the Privy Council. His time there prompted him to write a great deal about the history of the Indian sub-continent and his literary achievements won him a number of decorations ...
Born in 1530 in Seville, Spain, Baltazar de Alcazar was a poet known for his sonnets and epigrams about love and life, most of which contained a healthy level of humor. Alcazar came from a privileged family and his father was a judge on the council of Seville and the young poet received a good education. He is, however, little ...
Forever allied to Confederate America, Abram Joseph Ryan was born in 1838 in Maryland and went onto become an influential priest and one of the most recognizable poetic voices of the southern states of America in the 19th Century. His parents had emigrated from Ireland and he was their first sibling to have been actually born in their new adopted ...
