* Jean Francois Fernel: Biography

* Biography of John W. Gates, barbed wire promoter who monopolized the industry with the American Steel and Wire Company, accessed March 29, 2006

ISBN 0773521526 — Biography of the founding dean of Annesley Hall who served from 1903 until 1931.

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*** Question this entry according to Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 Richard and Sanchia only had two sons Edmund and Richard Cornwall who died as an infant.

Biography by dramatist who knew Crisp in the last few years of his life.

Biography of Mr Crisp by Nigel Kelly who runs the www. quentincrisp. info website.

Kane passed on some of his philosophy to an interviewer for Current Biography who was gathering information for his article.

* Ann Wroe's Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man is an attempt to provide the obscure official with a biography suitable to the man who is so influential to the Christian story.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot.

* Rashi by Maurice Liber Biography of Rashi who carried Rabbenu Gershom's teachings into the medieval world.

Various dates are given, with Ian Walker, the biographer of Harold arguing for between 1053 and 1055, but H. E. J. Cowdrey, who wrote Robert's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, says on 26 May in either 1052 or 1055.

In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who would commission and invent a biography as soon as an author died, said, " Biography is one of the new terrors of death ," and so a biography of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records.

The new team consisted of Chen, former Biography and CBS This Morning host Harry Smith, former NBC Sports commentator Hannah Storm, Rene Syler ( a news anchor from KTVT, the CBS station in Dallas ), and weatherman Dave Price, who was pried away from New York Fox affiliate WNYW and also was at WCBS-TV for some time after joining The Early Show.

Biography of Knox's friend and fellow Etonian, Patrick Shaw-Stewart, who died on active service in the First World War.

In Handling Edna, the Unauthorised Biography, Humphries absolves the koala of any role in the affair and reveals the true fate of Lois, who in fact survived abduction to become a Catholic nun.

Tsakiris chose psychic Nancy Weber who in 2006 appeared on an episode of the Biography Channel Psychic Investigators.

* The Dictionary of Canadian Biography ( 1966 – 2006 ), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died before 1931

According to a family memoir written by her granddaughter Lady Jane Wellesley, " Dottie " Wellesley left her family to become a lover of Vita Sackville-West ( who wrote her entry for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ).

Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Patricia Ann ( née Whitaker ) and John Samuel Waters, who was a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment .< ref name =" John Waters Biography 1946 -">

Although " Quaker Meadows " Joe is usually hailed as the Major McDowell who was the hero of the battle, some descendants of " Pleasant Gardens Joe " maintained that it was their ancestor who led the Burke County militia, a claim which, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, is contradicted by contemporary evidence.

Although " Quaker Meadows " Joe is usually hailed as the Major McDowell who was the hero of the battle, some descendants of " Pleasant Gardens Joe " maintain that it was their ancestor who led the Burke County militia, a claim which, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, is contradicted by contemporary evidence.

Thomas Seccombe writing in 1898 for the Dictionary of National Biography claimed that it was the illustrations of Leech that gave Surtees ' work any notability: " The coarseness of the text was redeemed in 1854 by the brilliantly humorous illustrations of John Leech, who utilised a sketch of a coachman made in church as his model for the ex-grocer.

* The first full-length biography was Lovecraft: a Biography ( ISBN 0-345-25115-6 ), written by L. Sprague de Camp ; published in 1975, it is now out of print.

Her first effort was called Sunflower to the sun ISBN 0-7981-1228-X ( Human & Rousseau, 1976 ), followed by Herman Charles Bosman, a Pictorial Biography ISBN 0-628-02148-8 ( Perskor, 1981 ), and most recently by Herman Charles Bosman: Between the Lines ISBN 1-77007-163-6 ( Struik, 2005 ).

" Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham the elder ( 1708 – 1778 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009 accessed 28 May 2012

* Lovecraft: a Biography ( 1975 )-the first major biography of H. P. Lovecraft

His first published collection of poetry, titled Biography for Beginners ( 1905 ), popularized the clerihew form ; it was followed by two other collections, in 1929 and 1939.

* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Edward's first marriage, about 1527, to Catherine Fillol, was annulled ; the reason is alleged to have been the discovery of a relationship between Catherine and Edward's father ; however, this is disputed by the Dictionary of National Biography.

* Matthew, H. C. G. " Asquith, Herbert Henry, first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( 1852 – 1928 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online

The first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography ( 1911 ) asserted that Nightingale reduced the death rate from 42 % to 2 % either by making improvements in hygiene herself or by calling for the Sanitary Commission.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: " Arcadia, the name Verrazzano gave to Maryland or Virginia ' on account of the beauty of the trees ,' made its first cartographical appearance in the 1548 Gastaldo map and is the only name on that map to survive in Canadian usage.

Under his editorship, the first edition of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography was compiled, though not published until after his death ( 1950 ).

Deutscher published his first major work, Stalin, A Political Biography in 1949.

He played FBI agent Turrou in Confessions of a Nazi Spy, the first American film which showed nazism as a threat to the United States in 1939, and Paul Ehrlich in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Paul Julius Reuter in A Dispatch from Reuter's, both Jewish Biography films of 1940.

The first, by William Dalton, was called Will Adams, The First Englishman in Japan: A Romantic Biography ( London, 1861 ).

Stephen also served as the first editor ( 1885 – 91 ) of the Dictionary of National Biography.

The first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography appeared on 1 January 1885.

* David Stevenson, ‘ Leslie, Alexander, first earl of Leven ( c. 1580 – 1661 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 19 Sept 2010

* Biografie von Heinrich Heine ( Biography of Heinrich Heine, 1934 ) Subtitled The Artist in Revolt it was first published in English in 1956 in a revised version translated by Joseph Witriol

In 1970, however, Scott and Zelda's marriage saw its most profound revision, when Nancy Milford, a graduate student at Columbia University, published Zelda: A Biography, the first book-length treatment of Zelda's life.

* Roy A. Sundstrom, ‘ Godolphin, Sidney, first earl of Godolphin ( 1645 – 1712 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009, accessed 25 Jan 2011.

* Christopher Ricks, " Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 19 December 2005.

* Greg Sandow: Fried Grapefruit: The Life of Henry Threadgill Biography written in 1995 for Columbia Records, as part of the press kit for Threadgill's first Columbia album, Carry the Day.

* Craig Baxter: The Jana Sangh-A Biography of an Indian Political Party, Oxford University Press, Indian Branch, Bombay 1971 ; first published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1969