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Arthur Beauchamp
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He is remembered as the father of Harold Beauchamp, who rose to fame as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was the father of writer Katherine Mansfield.
Bryan Crimmins
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Pyotr Polevoy
Pyotr Nikolayevich Polevoy (9 March 1839, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 12 February 1902, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer, playwright, translator, critic, editor and literary historian.
The prominent journalist and editor Nikolai Polevoy was his father.
A Saint Petersburg University graduate, for a decade Polevoy taught Russian literature and philology first at his alma mater, then at Novorossiysk and Warsaw Universities.
In 1871 he turned professional writer and in the course of the next thirty years published numerous historical novels and novellas as well as plays and critical and historical essays.
The 1911 Works by P.N. Polevoy in 6 volumes collected only a fraction of his vast and somewhat patchy legacy which he himself occasionally spoke dismissively of (admitting in his latter years to have been a "writing automaton... ready to churn out drama, novella, history, criticism, whatever").
Still, Pyotr Polevoy has been credited as a tireless popularizer of both literature and history.
Among his notable works are the "History of Russian Literature in Essays and Biographies"
(История русской литературы
в очерках и биографиях, 1871) and the "History of Russian Literature From the Ancient Times to Our Days" (1900, in 3 volumes).
Nikolai Polevoy
Nikolai Alekseevich Polevoy (
Russian Никола́й Алексе́евич Полево́й)  was a controversial Russian editor, writer, translator, and historian; his brother was the critic and journalist Ksenofont Polevoy and his sister the writer and publisher of folktales Ekaterina Avdeeva.
Polevoy was from an old merchant family from Kursk but was born in Irkutsk, where his father was director of a Russian-American company, and lived there until 1811, when the family moved first to Moscow and then to Kursk.
His father, disappointed in his refusal to take up the family business and disapproving of his interest in literature and history, refused to pay for his education, so he taught himself.
In February 1820 he moved to Moscow, where he attended both the theater and lectures at Moscow University; he visited Saint Petersburg and met Alexander Griboyedov, Vasily Zhukovsky, Faddei Bulgarin, and other literary figures, and began a literary career, publishing articles, poems, and translations in the journals of the day.
In 1825 he started his own journal, "Moskovskii telegrafThe Moscow Telegraph"), hoping to attract the writers he admired, like Pushkin, as well as emphasize the positive contributions of the merchant class to Russia.
Unfortunately, the aristocrats of the Pushkin circle viewed him as a vulgar parvenu, and his attack on Karamzin's reactionary "History of the Russian State" offended many influential people, notably Pyotr Vyazemsky, who had been Karamzin's ward and whose sister was married to the older historian.
When Polevoy wrote his own six-volume "History of the Russian People" (1829–1833), it was savaged by almost everyone.
The brilliant and idiosyncratic critic Apollon Grigoryev wrote in his memoirs, "From our present [1864] point of view it would be impossible to conceive anything more indecent than the article that the editor of the "Moscow Herald" [i.e., Mikhail Pogodin] hurled against "The History of the Russian People", if the articles [by Nikolai Nadezhdin] against it in the old men's "European Herald" had not been even more indecent...
The factions do not seem to have been in their right minds thirty years ago.
What was the cause of their being so hostile that they foamed at the mouth?"
Polevoy emphasized that history followed laws and did not depend on the actions of particular individuals; he also was one of the first to present Russian history as a confrontation between Europe and Asia.
Lauren G. Leighton says, summing up the contributions of Nikolai and his brother and collaborator Ksenofont:No one should argue that the Polevoys were comparable in literary taste and talent to the aristocrats of the Pushkin pleiad; their self-educated, self-made characters are apparent in their journal.
But neither should they be denied their great contribution in making leading European thinkers available to the Russian public in Russian, their eminently human liberalism, or their courage in constantly testing—and outwitting—the government censor.
In 1834, after competition from both the aristocrats and the plebeians had laid waste to the Polevoys' finances, "The Moscow Telegraph" was closed down by the government.
The Polevoys spent most of the rest of their lives editing the journals of Bulgarin and Grech.
The journal was closed down because of a bad review it gave a play by Nestor Kukolnik; Bernard Pares tells the story:It must be understood that the vast distances and the thinness of population in Russia practically confined journalistic enterprise to St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Even the Moscow journalists were hampered, in comparison with those of St. Petersburg, because it took them longer to guess in which direction the wind of the moment was blowing.
Thus in 1834 Polevóy, who had severely reviewed a patriotic play, found, on his arrival in St. Petersburg, that it had pleased the upper society.
"What are you doing?" said his protector, the Administrator of Police;
"you see how they take the play here; you will have to agree with this opinion, or else you will get yourself into terrible trouble.
"D.
S. Mirsky writes, "But his memory after his death was deservedly reverenced by the new intelligentsia as that of a pioneer and, in a sense, a martyr."
Jan Rubens
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Anacyndaraxes
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John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.

Question: Where was the father of Pyotr Polevoy born?
Answer: Irkutsk