Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

Though Brewster duly finished his theological studies and was licensed to preach, his other interests distracted him from the duties of his profession.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

As a reflection of this fame, Brewster portrait was later printed in some cigar boxes.

Although Brewster patented kaleidoscope in 1817 ( GB 4136 ), a copy of the prototype was shown to London opticians and copied before the patent was granted.

An instrument of more significance, the stereoscope, which – though of much later date ( 1849 ) – along with the kaleidoscope did more than anything else to popularize his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster.

Although Fresnel, who had also the satisfaction of being the first to put it into operation, perfected the dioptric apparatus independently, Brewster was active earlier in the field than Fresnel, describing the dioptric apparatus in 1812.

Brewster pressed its adoption on those in authority at least as early as 1820, two years before Fresnel suggested it, and it was finally introduced into lighthouses mainly through Brewster's persistent efforts.

Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.

Of a high-strung and nervous temperament, Brewster was somewhat irritable in matters of controversy ; but he was repeatedly subjected to serious provocation.

Brewster died in 1868, and was buried at Melrose Abbey, next to his first wife and second son.

Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City.

The town was officially incorporated in 1694, and originally included the lands of the current town of Brewster.

Sir David Brewster began work leading towards invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 when he was conducting experiments on light polarization but it was not patented until two years later.

William Brewster, a former diplomatic assistant to the Netherlands, was living in the Scrooby manor house, serving as postmaster for the village and bailiff to the Archbishop of York.

In 1815, Brewster experimented with higher-quality materials and showed that this angle was a function of the refractive index, defining Brewster's law.

Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.

Brewster Kahle ( ; born 1960 )

In October 1851 Danish born Col. Edvard Emil Langberg, Mexican commandant of Chihuahua, visited southern Brewster County.

* Henry Brewster Stanton ( 1805 – 1887 ), abolitionist, social reformer and husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in town.

* John Brewster Jr. ( 1766 – 1854 ) deaf, itinerant, prolific painter, was born in town.

* Tim Brewster ( born 1960 ), former coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team.

* Soleil Moon Frye ( born 1976 ), American actress best known for playing Punky Brewster

He was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the son of Florence Foster ( née Besse ), a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, and Kingman Brewster, Sr., a 1906 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and a 1911 graduate of the Harvard Law School.

David Brewster, physicist, mathematician, scientist, writer and inventor of the kaleidoscope was born in Jedburgh in 1781.

The inventor of the digital computer, John Vincent Atanasoff, though born in Hamilton, New York, grew up in Brewster.

* William K. Brewster ( born 1941 ), Democratic politician and a retired U. S. Congressman from Oklahoma

Brewster Hopkinson Shaw, Jr. ( born May 16, 1945 ) is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U. S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing.

Joshua Brewster Bolten ( born August 16, 1954 ) served as the White House Chief of Staff to U. S. President George W. Bush.

Frances Jane " Fanny " Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about north of New York City.

" Relentless " Lamon Tajuan Brewster ( born June 5, 1973 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) is a retired American professional heavyweight boxer, former WBO heavyweight champion, and entrepreneur.

Kent Brewster ( born 1961 ) is a writer, editor, and publisher.

Benjamin and Mary had one child, Benjamin Harris Brewster, Jr., born on October 22, 1872 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Brewster was born in Laurens County, South Carolina.

William Brewster was born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, about 1566, and died at Plymouth, Massachusetts on 10 April 1644.

* Fear Brewster ( c. 1606 – before 1634 ) so called because she was born at the height of the Puritans ' persecution.

* Love Brewster was born in Leiden, Holland about 1611 and died between 6 October 1650 and 31 January 1650 / 1, at Duxbury, Massachusetts.

: Wrestling Brewster was born in 1614 in Leiden, Holland ; was living in 1627, died unmarried before the 1644 settlement of his father's estate.