Praed
Praed names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Praed WINTHROP MACK- WORTH, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WINTHROP MACK- WORTH, an English poet; born in London, July 26, 1802. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained for two years in succession the chancellor's prize for an English poem. He contributed both in prose and verse to "Knight's Quarterly Magazine." In 1829 he was called to the bar, and in 1830 and 1831 was returned for St. Germans to Parliament, where he opposed the Reform Bill. He sat subsequently as member for Yarmouth, and Aylesbury, and became ultimately recorder of Barnstaple and deputy highsteward for the University of Cambridge. His poems are mostly of a light and elegant character, belonging to the class known as vers de société. He died in London, July 15, 1839. PRÆFECT, a common name applicable to various Roman functionaries. The most important was the Præfectus urbi, or warden of the city, whose office existed at an early period of Roman history, but was revived under Augustus, with new and greatly altered and extended authority, including the whole powers necessary for the maintenance of peace and order in the city, and an extensive jurisdiction civil and criminal. The Præfectus prætorio was the commander of the troops that guarded the emperor's person. the official title of PRETORriginally one when the patricians were compelled to acquiesce the consulship being thrown open to in the plebeians, they stipulated that a new curule magistrate should be appointed from the patricians exclusively, to act as supreme judge in the civil courts. On this magistrate the title of prætor was bestowed. PRÆTORIAN GUARD, a body of permanent troops, established by Augustus as Imperial Life Guards. The prætorian guards were kept up by successive emperors, and, being under special organization and enjoying several privileges, they became in time so powerful that they were able to raise and depose emperors at their will. They were reorganized by Septimius Severus, and were finally suppressed by Constantine the Great.
Praed MRS. CAMPBELL MACK- WORTH (ROSE CAROLINE MURRAY- PRIOR)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. CAMPBELL MACK- WORTH (ROSE CAROLINE MURRAY- PRIOR), an Australian novelist, born in Bromelton, Queensland, March 27, 1851. In 1876 she went to London. Her most popular works are: "An Australian Heroine" (1880); "Moloch" (1883); "The Head Station" (1885); "Outlaw and Lawmaker" (1893); "Nulma" (1897). In collaboration with Justin McCarthy, "The Right Honorable" (1886), and "The Ladies' Gallery" (1889), novels of political and social life.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The 1802-1839 dates and the Eton-and-Cambridge career Collier's gives for Winthrop Mackworth Praed still stand; what has moved is fashion, for the vers de societe he was praised for slipped out of the anthologies during the twentieth century, and he is now read mainly as an accomplished minor voice of light verse rather than a poet of standing. The other Praed on the page was still alive when Collier's wrote in 1921: Rosa Caroline Praed, nee Murray-Prior, lived until 1935, so the entry's list stopping at Nulma (1897) misses a further quarter-century of work. Her reputation has since been rebuilt rather than lost, largely by Australian and feminist scholars from the 1980s onward, who read novels like Outlaw and Lawmaker as early colonial fiction rather than as light popular romance, and who have taken an interest in her long companionship with Nancy Harward and her spiritualist beliefs.
Written for this edition, 2026.