* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* 1900 – V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic ( d. 1997 )

* 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic ( b. 1922 )

Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that " Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language ".

* 1866 – Roger Fry, English artist and art critic ( d. 1934 )

A. Richards, English literary critic ( d. 1979 )

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

* 1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop ( b. 1698 )

Chalker earned a BA degree in English from Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he was a theater critic on the school newspaper, The Towerlight.

* 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor ( b. 1924 )

" He later argued that the poem " is probably the most original poem about poetry in English, and the first hint outside his notebooks and letters that a major critic lies hidden in the twenty-five-year-old Coleridge.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

* 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic ( d. 1901 )

In 2009, English automotive critic Jeremy Clarkson wrote:

* 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic ( d. 1974 )

* Os Guinness ( born 1941 ), English author and social critic

* 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet ( d. 1859 )

The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".

* 1881 – Clive Bell, English critic ( d. 1964 )

* 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic ( d. 1917 )

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

`` Science In Action '', San Francisco's venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, according to a tip from Dr. Robert C. Miller.

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and writer ( d. 1649 )

* 1924 – Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1980 – Robert Hardy, English bass player ( Franz Ferdinand )

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1913 – Robert Irving, English conductor ( d. 1991 )

Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie ( Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, 1789, translated into English by Scotsman Robert Kerr ) is considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook.

The word autobiography was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical the Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid but condemned it as ' pedantic '; but its next recorded use was in its present sense by Robert Southey in 1809.

* 1959 – Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Glove )

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

Sir Robert " Bobby " Charlton CBE ( born 11 October 1937 ) is an English former football player.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.

Robert the Bruce, intending to join Wallace and commit troops to the war, sets up a meeting with him in Edinburgh where Robert's father has conspired with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English.

Years after Wallace's death, Robert the Bruce, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn where he is to formally accept English rule.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

* Basic English: A Protest, Joseph Albert Lauwerys, F. J. Daniels, Robert A.

Robert Filmer ’ s Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings, which had been written before the English Civil War, became accepted as the statement of their doctrine.

" Jupp points out that, " decline in English influences on Australian reformism and radicalism, and appropriation of the symbols of Empire by conservatives continued under the Liberal Party leadership of Sir Robert Menzies, which lasted until 1966.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.