Columbia Encyclopedia

(Encyclopedia) Bury, Richard de: see Richard de Bury. ...

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

(Encyclopedia) Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 9th earl of, 1629?–1685, Scottish nobleman; son of the 8th earl. An ardent and active royalist and a Protestant, he opposed extreme measures against the Covenanters, ther...

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

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

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

(Encyclopedia) Ypres, John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st earl of: see French, John Denton Pinkstone, 1st earl of Ypres. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hurd, Richard, 1720–1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on C...

(Encyclopedia) Edward V, 1470–83?, king of England (1483), elder son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. His father's death (1483) left the boy king the pawn of the conflicting ambitions of his paternal uncle, t...

(Encyclopedia) Axel, Richard ăkˈsĕl [key], 1946–, American pathologist and biochemist, b. New York City, M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1970. A professor at Columbia from 1978, Axel was awarded, with Linda B. Buck, the 20...