Ludlow
Ludlow names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ludlow EDMUND, an English republican
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDMUND, an English republican; born in Maiden Bradley, Wiltpublica shire, Engl England, in 1617. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford; and at the outbreak of the Civil War was a student in the Temple. He volunteered in Essex's lifeguards, saw service under Waller and Fairfax, was returned in his father's place to Parliament for Wiltshire in 1645, sat among the king's judges, and had a place in the council of state of the commonwealth. In 1651 he was sent to Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse. He refused to recognize Cromwell's protectorate, and till his death took no further part in public affairs. Returned to Parliament for Hindon in 1659, he urged the restoration of the Rump, held command again for a few months in Ireland, and was nominated by Lambert to the committee of safety. Four months after the Restoration he fled to France for safety, making his way to Vevay, Switzerland, where he lived in security. After the Revolution he returned to England, but, threatened with arrest, he returned to Vevay, and died there in 1692.
Ludlow WILLIAM, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an American military officer; born in Islip, L. I., Nov. 27, 1843; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy and appointed a 1st lieutenant in the Engineer Corps in 1864; served through the remainder of the war; was president of the United States Nicaragua Canal Commission in 1895; commissioned Brigadier-General of volunteers and was made chief engineer of the army destined for Cuba, in May, 1898. During the Santiago campaign he commanded the 1st Brigade, 2d Division, of the American army, and participated in the battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill. He was promoted Major-General of volunteers, Sept. 7, 1898; was military gove governor of Havana, from Dec. 12, 1898, to May 1, 1900; promoted Brigadier-General, U. S. A., Jan. 21, 1900; and appointed president of the War College Board, May 1, 1900. He was the author of "Exploration of the Black Hills and Yellowstone Country" and several military reports. He died Aug. 30, 1901. LUDWIG. See LOUIS.
Ludlow a market-town and municipal borough of Shropshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a market-town and municipal borough of Shropshire, England, at the Corve's influx to the Teme, 28 miles S. of Shrewsbury. It is a very old and interesting place, with two noble monuments of antiquity: First, the massive Norman keep, 110 feet high, of the castle, where Prince Arthur wedded Catharine of Aragon, and died less than five months afterward; where, in the banqueting-hall, Milton produced his "Comus," and where Butler wrote "Hucaptured by King the Lancastrians, and the Roundheads, it was finally dismantled in 1689. Secondly, the cruciform collegiate church (restored in 1863). Perpendicular in style, with a tower 130 feet high. The grammar school, founded in 1,282, and refounded in 1552 1552, is almost the oldest in Great Britain; and one of seven gates still remains. Pop. about 6,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 it gave Ludlow, Shropshire, a population of "about 6,000"; the town has since roughly doubled to some 10,000-11,000, and has remade itself around food, becoming Britain's first Cittaslow ("slow town") in 2003 and home to a food festival running since 1995. The castle Collier's describes, dismantled in 1689, is still a roofless ruin in the hands of the Earls of Powis but is now a paying visitor attraction and open-air theatre venue. The biggest scholarly shift concerns Edmund Ludlow: the Memoirs printed in 1698-99, long read as his own voice, were shown in the twentieth century to have been heavily rewritten by the deist editor John Toland, and Ludlow's far more godly original manuscript, "A Voyce from the Watch Tower", was published from the surviving portion in 1978. Collier's also seems to slip on William Ludlow, who was a West Point graduate and army engineer rather than a product of the Naval Academy.
Written for this edition, 2026.