(Encyclopedia) Urquhart or Urchard, Sir ThomasUrquhart or Urchard, Sir Thomasboth: ûrˈkərt [key], 1611–60, Scottish translator and author. A royalist, he was knighted (1641) by Charles I and fought…
(Encyclopedia) Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928, English novelist and poet, b. near Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent.
The son of a stonemason, he derived a love of music from his…
(Encyclopedia) Wolsey, ThomasWolsey, Thomasw&oobreve;lˈzē [key], 1473?–1530, English statesman and prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
From 1514 to 1529 Wolsey virtually controlled…
(Encyclopedia) Sully, Thomas, 1783–1872, American painter, b. England. Having come to the United States as a child, he first studied with his brother Lawrence, a miniaturist, and later for a brief…
(Encyclopedia) Pynchon, ThomasPynchon, Thomaspĭnˈchən [key], 1937–, American novelist, b. Glen Cove, N.Y., grad. Cornell, 1958. Pynchon is noted for his amazingly fertile imagination, his wild sense…
TILLOTSON, Thomas, a Representative from New York; born in Maryland in 1750; received a thorough education; studied medicine and practiced; during the Revolutionary War was commissioned first…
REDMOND William Thomas , a Representative from New Mexico; born in Chicago, Ill., January 28,
1955; attended Gage Park High School; B.A., Lincoln Christian College, Lincoln,
Ill., 1979;; M.Div.,…
PARRAN Thomas , a Representative from Maryland;
born near St. Leonard, Calvert County, Md., February 12, 1860;
attended the public schools and Charlotte Hall (Md.) Academy;
member of the State…
(Encyclopedia) Heyward, Thomas, 1746–1809, political leader and soldier in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. near Charleston, S.C. He was a delegate to the…
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