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(Encyclopedia) Stanley, Thomas: see Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Cochrane, Thomas: see Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fitzgerald, Thomas: see Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) West, Thomas: see De la Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thomas, Edward, 1878–1917, English poet, b. London, studied at Oxford. Forced to earn a living for his young family, Thomas began his literary career writing prose: dozens of essays on a wide array ...

(Encyclopedia) Deloney, Thomas dəlōˈnē [key], c.1543–c.1600, English ballad writer, fiction writer, and pamphleteer. He was a silk weaver. Deloney's chief works are three prose narratives—Jack of Newbury, Th...

(Encyclopedia) Blennerhassett Island, in the Ohio River, near Parkersburg, W.Va. On it Harman Blennerhassett built a mansion and a laboratory for his study. The island was ransacked by the local militia when Aaron B...

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Robert, 1757–1842, U.S. government official, b. Lancaster, Pa. Admitted to the bar in 1786, he practiced law in Baltimore before serving in the Maryland state senate (1793–95) and in the Ba...

(Encyclopedia) Thomas, Isaiah, 1749–1831, American patriot and printer, from Worcester, Mass. Thomas printed outspoken Whig editorials in the Massachusetts Spy, a newspaper that he helped to found. He fought at th...

(Encyclopedia) Linacre or Lynaker, Thomas both: lĭˈnəkər [key], 1460?–1524, English humanist and physician. He took the degree of doctor of medicine at the Univ. of Padua, returned to England c.1492, and becam...