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# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyde, William (8)

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyde, William (Hide), of Berks, gent. Balliol Coll., matric. 16 July, 1621, aged 18; B.A. 19 Oct., 1624, M.A. 30 May, 1627.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyern, John

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyern, John, M.A. of Cambridge University, *suppl. 7 Dec., 1571 (one John Hyron, B.A. from St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1544).
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyde, William (3)

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyde, William, of Wilts, gent. Christ Church, matric. 27 Dec., 1595, aged 17; B.A. 30 Oct., 1598, M.A. 20 June, 1601. See Edward 1601.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyde, William (4)

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyde, William, subscribed 1 July, 1613, fellow Exeter Coll. 1615-31, B.A. 16 July, 1618, M.A. 27 June, 1621 (s. Sir Laurence), baptised at Salisbury 17 Jan., 1596; buried in the cathedral 24 Nov., 1630; brother of Alexander, etc. See Boase, 60.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyet, James

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyet, James, of co. Hereford, gent. Hart Hall, matric. 17 Jan., 1583-4, aged 16.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyde, William (6)

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyde, William (Hide), of Hants, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 21 June, 1616, aged 14; student of Middle Temple 1618, as son and heir of Roger of Romsey, Hants, gent. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg. & Berry'- Hants, 264.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyde, William (7)

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyde, William, of Berks, arm. Merton Coll., matric. 19 June, 1618, aged 19; B.A. 3 Feb., 1618-19; possibly a student of Middle Temple 1619, as son and heir of William, of Hurst (Wilts ?). See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hyett, Edmund

From volume 2 of the work.
​Hyett, Edmund (Hyat), of co. Gloucester, pleb. Hart Hall, matric. entry under date 1573, aged 19.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mackintosh, Sir James

Mackintosh, Sir James (1765-1832). -- Philosopher and historian, was b. at Aldowrie, Inverness-shire, s. of an officer in the army and landowner, ed. at Aberdeen, whence he proceeded to Edinburgh to study medicine, in which he grad. in 1787. In the following year he went to London, where he wrote for the press and studied law, and in 1791 he pub. Vindiciæ Gallicæ in answer to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, which was well received by those who, in its earlier stages, sympathised with the Revolution, and procured for him the friendship of Fox, Sheridan, and other Whigs. Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1795, he delivered before that society in 1799 a brilliant course of lectures on The Law of Nature and Nations, which greatly increased his reputation. In 1804 he went out to India as Recorder of Bombay, and two years later was appointed a Judge of the Admiralty Court. He remained in India until 1811, discharging his official duties with great efficiency. After his return he entered Parliament in 1813 as member for Nairnshire, and attained a considerable reputation as a forcible and informing speaker on questions of criminal law and general politics. On the accession of the Whigs in 1830 he was made a member of the Board of Control for India. He also held from 1818-24 the Professorship of Law and General Politics at Haileybury. His true vocation, however, was to literature, and it is to be regretted that so much of his time and strength was withdrawn from it, his writings being confined to a Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy in the Encyclopædia Britannica, a sketch of the History of England for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, a Life of Sir Thomas More for the same, a fragment of a projected History of the Revolution of 1688, and some articles in the Edinburgh Review.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Macpherson, James

Macpherson, James (1736?-1796). -- Alleged translator of the Ossianic poems, s. of a small farmer at Ruthven, Inverness-shire, studied for the Church at Aberdeen and Edin., became teacher of the school in his native parish, and afterwards tutor in a gentleman's family. In 1758 he pub. The Highlander, an ambitious poem in 6 cantos, which, however, attracted no attention. But in the following year he submitted to John Home (q.v.), the author of Douglas, certain writings which he represented to be translations from ancient Gaelic poems. By the help of Home and some of his friends M. was enabled to pub. a considerable number of his Fragments of Poetry translated from the Gaelic and Erse Languages. These were received with profound and widely-spread interest, and gave rise to a controversy which can hardly yet be said to be settled. While some authorities received them with enthusiastic admiration, others immediately called their genuineness in question. In the first instance, however, a subscription was raised to enable M. to make a journey in search of further poetic remains, the result of which was the production in 1761 of Fingal, an epic in 6 books, and in 1763 of Temora, also an epic, in 8 books. The fame which these brought to their discoverer was great, and the sales enormous. In 1764 M. went as sec. to the Governor of Pensacola in Florida. Returning in 1766 he settled in London, became an energetic pamphleteer in support of the Government, and in 1780 entered Parliament, and was next year appointed to the lucrative post of Agent for the Nabob of Arcot. He retired in 1789, and bought an estate in his native page 254parish, where he d. in 1796. Great doubt still rests upon the subject of the Ossianic poems: it is, however, generally admitted that M. took great liberties with the originals, even if they ever really existed in anything at all resembling the form given in the alleged translations. No manuscripts in the original have ever been forthcoming. Few, however, will deny that M. either discovered, or composed, a body of poetry unlike anything that has preceded it, of unequal merit, indeed, but containing many striking and beautiful passages, and which unquestionably contributed to break up the tyranny of the classical school and thus prepare the way for the romantic revival.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mackay, Charles

Mackay, Charles (1814-1889). -- Poet and journalist, s. of a naval officer, was b. at Perth, and ed. at the Royal Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but much of his early life was spent in France. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in journalism, pub. Songs and Poems (1834), wrote a History of London, Popular Delusions, and a romance, Longbeard. His fame, however, chiefly rests upon his songs, some of which, including Cheer, Boys, Cheer, were in 1846 set to music by Henry Russell, and had an astonishing popularity. In 1852 he became ed. of the Illustrated London News, in the musical supplement to which other songs by him were set to old English music by Sir H.R. Bishop. M. acted as Times correspondent during the American Civil War, and in that capacity discovered and disclosed the Fenian conspiracy. He had the degree of LL.D. from Glasgow in 1846.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Macneill, Hector

Macneill, Hector (1746-1818). -- Poet, was in the West Indies 1780-86, and clerk on a flagship. He wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, The Harp (1789), The Carse of Forth, and Scotland's Skaith, the last against drunkenness, but is best known for his songs, such as My Boy Tammy, I lo'ed ne'er a Laddie but ane, and Come under my Plaidie.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mahony, Francis Sylvester

Mahony, Francis Sylvester (FATHER Prout) (1804-1866). -- Humorist, b. at Cork, and ed. at the Jesuit Coll. at Clongoweswood, Co. Kildare, at Amiens, and at Rome, becoming a member of the society, was Prof. of Rhetoric at Clongoweswood, but was soon after expelled from the order. He then came to London, and became a leading contributor to Fraser's Magazine, under the signature of "Father Prout." He was witty and learned in many languages. One form which his humour took was the professed discovery of the originals in Latin, Greek, or mediæval French of popular modern poems and songs. Many of these jeux d'esprit were coll. as Reliques of Father Prout. He wittily described himself as "an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt." Latterly he acted as foreign correspondent to various newspapers, and d. at Paris reconciled to the Church.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Maginn, William

Maginn, William (1793-1842). -- Journalist and miscellaneous writer, b. at Cork, became a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and afterwards foreign correspondent to The Representative, a paper started by J. Murray, the publisher, and when its short career was run, one of the leading supporters of Fraser's Magazine. One of the most brilliant periodical writers of his time, he has left no permanent work behind him. In his later years he fell into intemperate habits, and d. in poverty.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mackenzie, Henry

Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831). -- Novelist and miscellaneous writer, s. of a physician in Edin., where he was b. and ed. He studied for the law, and became Controller of Taxes for Scotland. He was the author of three novels, The Man of Feeling (1771), The Man of the World (1773), and Julia de Roubigné (1777), all written in a strain of rather high-wrought sentimentalism, in which the influence of Sterne is to be seen. He was also a leading contributor to The Mirror and The Lounger, two periodicals somewhat in the style of the Spectator. In his later days he was one of the leading members of the literary society of Edinburgh.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mackenzie, Sir George

Mackenzie, Sir George (1636-1691). -- Lawyer and miscellaneous writer, s. of Sir Simon M., of Lochslin, a brother of the Earl of Seaforth, was ed. at St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Bourges, called to the Bar in 1659, in 1677 became Lord Advocate, in which capacity he was the subservient minister of the persecuting policy of Charles II. in Scotland, and the inhumanity and relentlessness of his persecution of the Covenanters gained for him the name of "Bloody Mackenzie." In private life, however, he was a cultivated and learned gentleman with literary tendencies, and is remembered as the author of various graceful essays, of which the best known is A Moral Essay preferring Solitude to Public Employment (1665). He also wrote legal, political, and antiquarian works of value, including Institutions of the Law of Scotland (1684), Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland (1686), Heraldry, and Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland from the Restoration of Charles II.,page 252 a valuable work which was not pub. until 1821. M. was the founder of the Advocates' Library in Edin. He retired at the Revolution to Oxf., where he d.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Macklin, Charles

Macklin, Charles (1697?-1797). -- Actor and dramatist, b. in the north of Ireland, was one of the most distinguished actors of his day, shining equally in tragedy and comedy. Having killed another actor in a quarrel he was tried for murder, but acquitted, and d. a centenarian. He wrote, among other comedies, Love à; la Mode (1759) and The Man of the World (1781), which were the only ones printed. He was the creator of Sir Pertinax Macsycophant, a famous burlesque characterpage 253.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Macleod, Norman

Macleod, Norman (1812-1872). -- Scottish divine and miscellaneous writer, s. of the Rev. Norman M., D.D., a distinguished minister of the Scottish Church, studied at Edin., and was ordained in 1838. He became one of the most distinguished ministers, and most popular preachers of his Church, was made one of the Royal Chaplains in Scotland in 1857, and became a trusted friend of Queen Victoria. He was the first ed. of Good Words, to which he contributed many articles and stories, including Wee Davie, The Starling, and The Old Lieutenant and his Son.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harris, James

​Harris, James (1709-1780).—Grammarian, was a wealthy country gentleman and member of Parliament, who held office in the Admiralty and the Treasury. He was the author of a singular and learned work entitled Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar. For the purpose which it had in view it is useless; but it contains much curious matter. His s. was the eminent diplomatist, James H., 1st Earl of Malmesbury.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harris, Joel Chandler

​Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908).—Writer of tales, etc., b. at Eatonton, Georgia, was successively printer, lawyer, and journalist. He struck out an original line in his stories of animal life as it presents itself to the mind of the Southern negro, in whose dialect they are written. These not only achieved and retain an exceptional popularity among children, to whom they were in the first instance addressed, but attracted the attention of students of folklore and anthology. Among his writings are Uncle Remus (1880), Nights with Uncle Remus (1884), Mr. Rabbit at Home (1895), Aaron in the Wild Woods (1897), Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann (1899), etc.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hawes, Stephen

​Hawes, Stephen (d. 1523?).—Poet; very little concerning him is known with certainty. He is believed to have been b. in Suffolk, and may have studied at Oxf. or Camb. He first comes clearly into view as a Groom of the Chamber in 1502, in which year he dedicated to Henry VII. his Pastyme of Pleasure, first printed in 1509 by Wynkyn de Worde. In the same year appeared the Convercyon of Swerers (1509), and A Joyful Meditacyon of all England (1509), on the coronation of Henry VIII. He also wrote the Exemple of Vertu. H. was a scholar, and was familiar with French and Italian poetry. No great poet, he yet had a considerable share in regularising the language.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harte, Francis Bret

​Harte, Francis Bret (1839-1902).—American humorist, b. in Albany, N.Y., but when still a boy went to California. He had a somewhat varied career as a teacher, miner, and journalist, and it is as a realistic chronicler of the gold-field and an original humorist that his chief literary triumphs were achieved. Among his best known writings are Condensed Novels, in which he showed great skill as a parodist, The Luck of Roaring Camp. The Idyll of Red Gulch, and The Heathen Chinee. In 1880 he came to Glasgow as U.S. Consul, and from 1885 he lived in London. His writings often show the tenderness and fine feeling that are allied to the higher forms of humour, and he may be said to have created a special form of short story in his Californian tales and prose idylls.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hare, Julius Charles

​Hare, Julius Charles (1795-1855).—Essayist, etc., younger brother of the above, was b. at Vicenza. When two years ​old his parents left him to the care of Clotilda Tambroni, female Prof. of Greek at Bologna. Ed. at Charterhouse and Camb., he took orders and, in 1832, was appointed to the rich family living of Hurstmonceau, which Augustus had refused. Here he had John Sterling (q.v.) for curate, and Bunsen for a neighbour. He was also Archdeacon of Lewes and a Chaplain to the Queen. His first work was Guesses at Truth (1827), jointly with his brother, and he also pub., jointly with Thirlwall (q.v.), a translation of Niebuhr's History of Rome, wrote The Victory of Faith and other theological books and pamphlets on Church and other questions, A Life of Sterling, and a Vindication of Luther. H., though a lovable, was an eccentric, man of strong antipathies, unmethodical, and unpunctual.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harland, Henry

​Harland, Henry (1861-1905).—Novelist, b. of American parentage at St. Petersburg, and ed. at Rome. Thereafter he went to Paris, and thence to America, where he graduated at Harvard, and settled in New York. His literary career falls into two distinctly marked sections, very diverse in character. During the first of these he produced, under the pseudonym of "Sidney Luska," a series of highly sensational novels, thrown off with little regard to literary quality, and which it was his wish should be forgotten; but about 1890 his aspirations underwent a complete change, and he became an enthusiast in regard to style and the mot propre. The first novels of this new era, Mademoiselle Miss (1893), Grey Roses (1895), and Comedies and Errors (1898), though obtaining the approval of the literary elect, had little general popularity; but the tide turned with the appearance of The Cardinal's Snuff-box (1900), which was widely admired. It was followed by The Lady Paramount (1901), and My Friend Prospero (1903). H. d. at San Remo after a prolonged illness.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hartley, David

​Hartley, David (1705-1757).—Philosopher, b. at Luddenden, Yorkshire, and ed. at Camb., studied for the Church, but ​owing to theological difficulties turned to medicine as a profession, and practised with success at various places, including London and Bath. He also attained eminence as a writer on philosophy, and indeed may be said to have founded a school of thought based upon two theories, (i) the Doctrine of Vibrations, and (2) that of Association of Ideas. These he developed in an elaborate treatise, Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations. Though his system has long been discarded, its main ideas have continued to influence thought and investigation.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harington, Sir John

​Harington, Sir John (1561-1612).—Miscellaneous writer, and translator, b. at Kelston Park near Bath, and ed. at Eton and Camb., became a courtier of Queen Elizabeth, whose godson he was. In 1599 he served in Ireland under Essex, by whom he was knighted on the field, a stretch of authority which was much resented by the Queen. While there he wrote A Short View of the State of Ireland, first pub. 1880. He was in repute for his epigrams, of which some have wit, but others are only indelicate. His translation of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, in the metre of the original, is a somewhat free paraphrase, and is now superseded. It first appeared in the form of extracts, which were handed in MS. about the Court until they reached the Queen, who reprimanded the translator for corrupting the morals of her ladies by translating the most unedifying passages, and banished him to his country seat until he should have translated the whole poem. His most valuable work is one which was pub. in 1769 by a descendant, under the title of Nugæ Antiquæ (Old-time Trifles), a miscellaneous collection from his writings and papers, containing many things of interest, e.g., a minute account of the Queen's last illness, and letters and verses by her and other eminent persons.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harrington, James

​Harrington, James (1611-1677).—Political theorist, s. of Sir Sapcotes H., was b. at Upton, Northamptonshire, and ed. at ​Oxf., where he was a pupil of Chillingworth. After leaving the university he travelled on the Continent, visiting, among other places, The Hague and Venice, where he imbibed republican principles. He was for some time a groom of the bedchamber to Charles I. On the outbreak of the Civil War he sided with the Parliament, but disapproved of the execution of the King, for whom he appears, notwithstanding his political theories, to have cherished a personal attachment. Thereafter he withdrew from active life, and devoted himself to composing his political romance (as it may be called) of Oceana, which he pub. in 1656, and in which Oceana represents England, Marpesia Scotland, and Panopæa Ireland. In this work he propounds the theory that the natural element of power in states is property, of which land is the most important. He further endeavoured to propagate his views by establishing a debating society called the Rota, and by his conversations with his friends. After the Restoration he was confined in the Tower, and subsequently at Plymouth. He issued several defences of Oceana, and made translations from Virgil. In his later years he laboured under mental delusions. Aubrey describes him as of middle stature, strong, well-set, with quick, fiery hazel eyes, and thick curly hair.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Harvey, Gabriel

​Harvey, Gabriel (1545?-1630).—Poet, s. of a ropemaker, was b. at Saffron Walden, ed. at Camb., and became the friend of Spenser, being the Hobbinol of The Shepheard's Calendar. He wrote various satirical pieces, sonnets, and pamphlets. Vain and ill-tempered, he was a remorseless critic of others, and was involved in perpetual controversy, specially with Greene and Nash, the latter of whom was able to silence him. He wrote treatises on rhetoric, claimed to have introduced hexameters into English, was a foe to rhyme, and persuaded Spenser temporarily to abandon it.
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# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, John (5)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, John, s. John, of Bowden, Cheshire, cler. Worcester Coll., matric. 7 Nov., 1811, aged 19.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, Laurents

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, Laurents, y.s. Charles, of Twickenham, Middlesex, gent. St. John's Coll., matric. 5 July, 1836, aged 18.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, John (3)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, John, s. Nathaniel, of Wigan, co. Lancaster, gent. Brasenose Coll., matric. 19 May, 1773, aged 19.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, John (4)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, John, s. William, of Hampstead, Middlesex, arm. Christ Church, matric. 26 Oct., 1790, aged 17.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, Octavius de Leyland

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, Octavius de Leyland, 6s. Gardner, of Leyland, co. Lancaster, cler. Brasenose Coll., matric. May, 1856, aged 19; B.A. 1860, vicar of Heapey 1874.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, Montagu

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, Montagu, 7s. Edward, of London, gent. Pembroke Coll., matric. 26 Oct., 1868, aged 19; B.A. & M.A. 1875.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, Rigbye

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, Rigbye, s. John, of Hool, Cheshire, cler. Brasenose Coll., matric. 14 Jan., 1769, aged 18; B.A. 1772, M.A. 1775.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, John Loraine

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, John Loraine, o.s. John, of St. Marylebone, London, arm. Christ Church, matric. 10 Oct., 1827, aged 18.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, William

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, William, 3s. William, of Stratton, Wilts, gent. St. Edmund Hall, matric. 6 June, 1840, aged 26; M.A. Lambeth 1847, P.C. Mytholmroyd, Yorks, 1846, died 22 April, 1868.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Baldwin, William John Atkinson

From volume 1 of the work.
​Baldwin, William John Atkinson, 1s. Rev. John, of Dalton-in-Furness, co. Lancaster, cler. Christ Church, matric. 8 June, 1865, aged 20; bar.-at- law, Middle Temple, 28 June, 1876, See Foster's Men at the Bar.