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(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) 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) Dawkins, Richard (Clinton Richard Dawkins), 1941– British evolutionary biologist and ethologist, b. Kenya, Ph.D. Oxford, 1966. He was a research assistant under Nikolaas Tinbergen at Oxford until 19...

(Encyclopedia) Kempenfelt, Richard: see Royal George. ...

(Encyclopedia) Whately, Richard hwātˈlē [key], 1787–1863, English prelate and writer. Fellow and tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, he published a witty work aimed at extreme skeptics, Historic Doubts Relative to ...

(Encyclopedia) Donner, Richard, 1930-2021, American film director, b. Bronx, N.Y., as Richard Donald Schwartzberg. Donner came from a Russian, Jewish immigrant family....

(Encyclopedia) Richard Cœur de Lion: see Richard I, of England. ...

(Encyclopedia) Leacock, Richard, 1921–2011, Anglo-American filmmaker, b. London. A key figure in the development of cinéma vérité, he also helped create the camera and sound equipment that made the style possib...