(Encyclopedia) Buller, Sir Redvers HenryBuller, Sir Redvers Henrybŭlˈər [key], 1839–1908, British general. His military career began in China, and he later took part in the suppression of the Red…
Henry Mancinipop composerBorn: 4/16/1924Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio A winner of Oscar and Grammy Awards, Mancini worked as a staff composer for Universal Pictures (1952–58), contributing music to…
Henry Hamilton British officer and governorBorn: 1734?Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Hamilton was the son of Henry Hamilton, member of the British Parliament for Donegal, County Cork, Ireland.…
(Encyclopedia) Drummond, William Henry, 1854–1907, Canadian poet, b. Ireland. For several years he worked and practiced medicine in frontier Canadian communities. There he came to know the French…
(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775–1867, English diarist, journalist, and lawyer. He practiced law occasionally and served (1808–9) as war correspondent for the London Times. His voluminous…
(Encyclopedia) Hadley, Henry Kimball, 1871–1937, American composer and conductor, b. Somerville, Mass., studied at the New England Conservatory and in Vienna. He composed and conducted in Europe from…
(Encyclopedia) Harland, Henry, 1861–1905, American novelist, b. St. Petersburg, Russia, studied at Harvard. He traveled extensively in Europe during his childhood. His first novels were written under…
(Encyclopedia) Nash, John Henry, 1871–1947, American printer and bibliophile, b. Woodbridge, Canada. After learning the printer's trade, he emigrated to the United States in 1894. He eventually…
(Encyclopedia) Harvey, William Henry, 1811–66, Irish botanist. An authority on algae, he wrote A Manual of the British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (4 vol., 1846–51), and Phycologia Australica…
(Encyclopedia) Henry of Huntingdon, d. 1155, English chronicler, archdeacon of Huntingdon. His Historia Anglorum is important not because it gives many new facts but because it was much used by later…
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