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(Encyclopedia) Daley, Richard Michael: see under Daley, Richard Joseph. ...

(Encyclopedia) Beauchamp, Richard de: see Warwick, Richard de Beauchamp, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Milnes, Richard Monckton: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Monckton Milnes, Richard: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Clare, Richard de: see Pembroke, Richard de Clare, 2d earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Webster, Richard Everard: see Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount. ...

(Encyclopedia) Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of därˈbē [key], 1435?–1504, English nobleman. During the Wars of the Roses, Stanley was ostensibly a supporter of the Lancastrian Henry VI, but he had Yorkist sym...

(Encyclopedia) Brome, Richard bro͞om, brōm [key], c.1590–1652, English dramatist. He was the friend, servant, and disciple of Ben Jonson. Primarily a writer of realistic satiric comedy, picturing the life and ma...

(Encyclopedia) Petersburg, city (1990 pop. 38,386), politically independent and in no county, SE Va., on the Appomattox River; inc. 1850. A port of entry and an important tobacco market, it has industries producing ...

(Encyclopedia) Henry V, 1387–1422, king of England (1413–22), son and successor of Henry IV. Henry abandoned his early recklessness (celebrated and probably exaggerated by Shakespeare) and ruled with justice...