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English and author
the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.
Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.
* Sarah Austin ( translator ) ( 1793 – 1867 ), English author
Charles Dickens was a prominent English author of the 19th century.
* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )
* 1904 – Norah Lofts, English author ( d. 1983 )
* 1932 – Antonia Fraser, English author
* 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author ( d. 1995 )
* 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, English author ( d. 2010 )
* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author
* 1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, author, and actress ( Spice Girls )
* 1593 – Izaak Walton, English author ( d. 1683 )
* 1961 – Stuart Maconie, English journalist, author, and broadcaster
English author
* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )
* 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author ( d. 1995 )
* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )
* 1858 – E. Nesbit, English author ( d. 1924 )
* 1958 – Simon Baron-Cohen, English psychiatrist and author
* 1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, English author ( d. 2011 )
* 1946 – Terry Nutkins, English television host and author ( d. 2012 )
* 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster ( d. 2004 )
* 1961 – Jonathan Coe, English author
* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )
* 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English author

English and Thomas
Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.
The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.
* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )
The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.
Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.
* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )
* 1580 – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist ( d. 1627 )
* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )
Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.
It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.
An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.
In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).
Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy ( English painter ) | Thomas Hardy, 1792
Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.
Thomas G. Tucker suggests a root in " cry " words and refers to English plaint, plaintiff, and so on.

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