Hurd
Hurd names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hurd RICHARD, an English clergyauthor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD, an English clergyauthor; named the "Beauty of man and comeliness Holiness" on account of his and piety; born in Congreve, Staffordshire, England Jan. 13, 1720. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow in 1742. In 1749 appeared his first notable assessed valuation of $3,000,000. production, "Commentary on Horace's Ars Poetica." In 1750 he was appointed one of the Whitehall preachers. He became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1774, but exchanged this see for Worcester in 1781; in 1783 he declined the archbishopric of Canterbury. His principal works are: "Dissertations on Poetry" (1755-1757); "Dialogues on Sincerity, Retirement, the Golden Age of Elizabeth, and the Constitution of the English Government" (1759), his most popular book; "Letters on Chivalry and Romance" (1762); "Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel" (1764); and "An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church" (1772). He died May 28, 1808. HURDWAR or HAREDWARA (hurdwâr'), a town of India, in Bengal, on the right bank of the Ganges, where the river emerges from the foot-hills of the Himalayas into the plains of Hindustan, 36 miles from Seharunpoor. From its position on this stream, esteemed so sacred by the Hindus, immense numbers of pilgrims are annually attracted hither. Every 12th year fully 2,000,000 come partly from purposes poses of devotion, and partly to trade in camels, horses, cattle, drugs, fruits, etc.
Hurd ARCHIBALD, a British author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARCHIBALD, a British author. He was born in 1869 and was educated in the London board schools, after which he became connected with various London papers. Since 1.899 he has been on the editorial staff of the "Daily Telegraph," contributing articles, chiefly on naval topics, to the English reviews. His books include: "Naval Efficiency, the War-Readiness of the Fleet," "German Sea-Power: Its Rise, Progress, and Economic Basis"; "The Command of the Sea"; "The New Empire Partnership"; etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Richard Hurd's story was complete when Collier's wrote in 1921 and still reads well, though his "Letters on Chivalry and Romance" (1762) is now valued less as criticism than as an early landmark of the Gothic revival and pre-Romantic taste; his book collection, Hurd's Library at Hartlebury Castle in Worcestershire, survives and the castle passed out of diocesan hands to a preservation trust and reopened to the public in 2018. Archibald Hurd, by contrast, was a living journalist of 52 when the entry was written: he went on to produce the official history of the merchant navy in the First World War and did not die until 1959. The Hurdwar note attached to the same page misplaces the town in Bengal; Haridwar sits in what is now the state of Uttarakhand, created in 2000, and its twelve-yearly Kumbh Mela now draws crowds counted in the tens of millions rather than the "fully 2,000,000" of 1921.
Written for this edition, 2026.