The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-02
RICHARD
ERIC


-Four Inventors of the Name :.
= Who Have Helped Mold Modern ;:
ClVlhzat,on-The Great Richards :.
or the Sea and Their Adventures- !
= a Group of Famous Writing Rich !:
r ards-The Old Feminine Forms of !.
the Name, aud Some of Their Fa. :.
nous bearers-Rlcciarda. Beloved +
OF the Scholar Cino-Names of i
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England, in 1771, went 10 work al an en-.
glneer IN his father S mines. II is said
that he was not over-fond OF schoolino.
and used to play truant. Nevcrtboloss
once he confounded his schoolmaster by
onering TO do SIX suns to the master g
one. lie was strong and muscular, six
teet TWO In height, had broad shoulders.
massive head and deep blue eyes.
Irevithick was always experimenting
WIN machinery, The newly-invented
steam engine interested him greatly, and
atter making many small models. he per-
iccted, on Christmas eve, in the wear
| lool full sized vehicle, run by steam.
the nrst to carry passengers. This was
SO successful that Trevithick and a
TREND In 1904 built locomotive engine
captain Dick IS Puffer. it was called
TO run on a regular railroad
hlchard Hoe and Richard Gatlipp
were American born. Hoe was born ia
lSl2 and came Of family famed before
and since because of its prominence in
printing press improvements. In 1876
roe lightning press, rotary press,
was was, Drought out, but later he invented a
SUN more complicated piece of machiu.
cry, the web perfecting press, which
prints on both sides of the paper and
cuts and folds it all in one. Gathnp,
porn SIX years later than Hoe. was the
son OF an inventor. He took degree
IN medicine, but never practiced for
he preferred to devote all his time to in.
Vention, His best known production is
the revolving gun called by his name
Less important to the modern world,
perhaps, but not less interesting. are the
ives OF the great Richards of the sea,
The hrst of them was not Richard at
all, but Richard s Scandinavian cousin,
Eric For it is Eric the Red, brave Nor.
weglan outlaw, who crossed the stormy
seas and made the first white settlement
III Greenland, about 9S5.
Almost SIX centuries later lived Rich
ard Chancellor, an English navigator,
who started out with Sir Hugh vii.
loughby TO seek a northwest passage to
INDIA. In the White Sea Chancellor
was separated from his companions.
Nothing daunted, he made his way over.
land to Moscow, and there obtained val
liable tide concessions from Russia for
England
Sir Richard Hawkins, born in 1862,
the only son Of Sir John Hawkins.
started when he was thirty-one TO 90
around the world. He got as far as
Chill, where he besieged and captured
Valparaiso. Then in 1894, almost exact
y year after he had left England,
he was made prisoner by the Spanish.
When, In 1902, he was ransomed and re.
turned free to England, he was much
praised and feted, was lSnighted. made
a member of parliament, and finally was
appointed vice admiral of Devon.
Richard. Earl Howe, commanded the
British fleet on the Atlantic coast in the
Revolutionary war. Like Hawkins, he
started around the world, and, like,
Hawkins, was popular hero. His
the glorious first of June, in the war
with France. when, on his flagship, the
Queen Charlotte, he commanded the
British fleet of twenty-five ships In
honor of the day London was illumi-
mated for three nights, and the king
made Howe a Knight of the Garter
Richard Kempenfelt, British rear ad
miral, who in 1882 sank with his flag
ship, the Royal George, which broke up
u.
and Richard Hobson, hero Of the Merri
mac, belong in this list.
Three kings of the name, the first
called the Lion Hearted, or Coeur de
Lion, king in 1889, who made a trip to
the Holy Land, and the last one of the
most hated kings that ever lived, who
fell at Bosworth Field, the battle which
ended the Wars Of the Roses, ruled in
England. Fourteen Erics were kings of
hot try e
with Denmark. in 1897, The best loved
of them was Saint Eric, king in 115O,
who Christianized upper Sweden.
Richard Hooker, born In 1858, whose
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity' is toI
this day considered the greatest work
or the constitution of the Church of
England; Sir Richard Steele, born in
Brinsley Sheridan, brilliant author Of
1.-The Rivals and other popular
dramas, who died in 1916; Richard Bar
ham. English clergyman, born in 1888,
who wrote the '1ngoldsby Legends -;
Richard Blackmore. born in 1925, author
of "Lorna Doone'; Richard Watson
Glider, American born in 1874, famous
as editor and poet, and Richard Harding
Davis, journalist and story writer, rep.
resent the name among men of letters.
Dick Wilmington, famous lord
MAJOR of London, who died in 1920;
Richard Grafton, who in l549 printed
the first Book of Common Prayer IN
England; Richard Burbage, actor in
Elizabeth IS reign and friend of
Shakespeare s; Richard Cromwell. who
succeeded his father, Oliver, as Lord
Protector of England; Richard Brock
lesby, famous eighteenth century physl-
clan to whom Dr. Johnson offered
hundred pounds a year for health;
Richard Henry Lee, famous southern
statesman, who in 1774 was a member
of the Continental congress; Richard
Marquis of Wellesley, elder brother OF