These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Watson, Watson.
ROSAMUND MARR an English poet, writing sometimes under the pseudonyms GRAHAM R. TOMSON and R. ARMYTAGE; born in London, England, in 1863. She contributed to English and American periodicals, and edited several anthologies. Her works include: "The Bird Bride" (1889); "A Summer Night, and Other Poems" (1891); "After Sunset" (1895). She died in 1911.
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HENRY BRERETON MARRIOTT, an English novelist, born in Caulfield, Australia, in 1863. He was educated at Canterbury College, New Zealand, and in 1885 removed to England, where he engaged in journalism. He contributed to many reviews and magazines and became best known as a writer of novels of adventure. These include "Lady Faintheart" (1890); "Galloping Dick" (1896); "The Adventurers" (1898); "Hurricane Island" (1904); "The Big Fish" (1912); "The House in the Downs" (1914); "The Affair on the Island" (1916); "Mulberry Wharf" (1917); and "The Excelsior" (1918). He also served on the editorial staffs of several magazines.
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JAMES CRAIG, an American astronomer; born in Ontario, Can., Jan. 28, 1838; was graduated at the University of Michigan at the age of 19, and appointed Professor of Astronomy in that institution at the age of 21; called to the chair of astronomy in the University of Wisconsin in 1879. He was the discoverer of 23 asteroids, and received the Lalande medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences for the discovery of He was a six of them in one year. member of the Eclipse Expeditions to Iowa in 1869 and to Sicily in 1870, and took charge of the Transit of Venus Ex- , China, in 1874. He pedition to Peking was also the discoverer of several comets. He was for many years the actuary of an insurance company, and accumulated a moderate fortune by commercial enterprises, of which he left $16,000 to the National Academy of Sciences, the income of which is partly devoted to a research fund and partly to the bestowal of the "Watson Medal" of the Academy. His most lasting work was the writing of his "Theoretical Astronomy," a standard work on the computation of orbits and the theory of perturbation. He died in Madison, Wis., Nov. 23, 1880.
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JOHN, pseudonym IAN MACLAREN, an English clergyman and author; born in Manningtree, Essex, England, Nov. 3, 1850; was graduated at Edinburgh University (1870); studied theology at New College, Edinburgh, and Tübingen; ordained minister of the Free Church, Logiealmond, Perthshire (1875); called to Free St. Matthew's, Glasgow (1877); translated in 1880 to Sefton Park Church, Liverpool, one of the most important congregations of the Presbyterian Church of England; received Hon. D. D. in 1895 from St. Andrews University, and a similar degree in 1897 from Yale University, where he lectured on preaching (1896). Till 1893 Dr. Watson was known as a popular preacher and able minister; but in that year he acquired additional distinction and wider fame by writing a series of Scotch idylls for the "British Weekly." When collected and published in book form under the title of "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," they became widely popular in Great Britain and the United States. "The Days of Auld Lang Syne," a second series of idylls, published in 1895, also reached a large circulation. by other stories by These were followed which were equally successful. Dr. Watson's religious publications include: Hei8 orchi JOHN WATSON "The Upper Room"; "The Mind of the ; "The Cure of Souls"; ;" Master" (1896) er's Wheel" "The Potter's (1897); "Companions of the Sorrowful Way" (1898). He died in 1907.
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JOHN CRITTENDEN, an American naval officer, born at Frankfort, Ky., in 1842. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1860. In the same year he was appointed a midshipman, was promoted to be lieutenant-commander in 1866, captain in 1887, commodore in 1897, and rearadmiral in 1899. He served during the Civil War and took part in many important engagements. He commanded many ships and filled several offices on land, becoming president of the Board of Inspection, at San Francisco, in 1888. He was captain of the Navy Yard, Mare Island, from 1890 to 1892, and in 1894-5 was a member of the Naval Retiring Board. From 1895 to 1898 he was governor of the Naval Home in Philadelphia. During the War with Spain he commanded a division of the North Atlantic Fleet, and was also commanderin-chief of the Eastern Squadron sent to re-enforce Admiral Dewey's fleet. From 1899 to 1900 he was commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, and for two years following was president of the Naval Examining Board. He represented the navy at the coronation of King Edward VII. in 1902. He was retired in 1904
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JAMES E., a United States Senator from Indiana, born at Winchester, Ind., in 1864. He was educated at the De Pauw University. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar. He removed to Rushville, Ind., in 1893, and in 1895 was elected to the 54th Congress. He was elected from the 56th to the 60th Congresses (1899-1909). In 1908 he was the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana. In 1916 he was appointed United States Senator, to fill the unexpired term of Benjamin F. Shively. He was re-elected in 1920.
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SIR WILLIAM, an English poet; born in Burley-in-Wharfdale, Yorkshire, England, Aug. 2, 1858. His published works include "The Prince's Quest" (1880); "Epigrams of Art" (1884); in the "National Review," a series of political sonnets, "Ver Tenebrosum" (1885); "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems" (1891); "Lachrymæ Musarum" (1892), an elegy on Tennyson; "Poems" (1893); "Excursions in Criticism" (1893); "The Eloping Angels" (1893); "Odes, and Other Poems" (1894); "The Purple East" (1896), an attack on the British Government for its failure to act against Turkey for the Armenian massacres; "Collected Poems" (1898); "Heralds of Dawn" (1912); "The Muse in Exile" (1913); "The Man Who Saw" (1917).
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THOMAS E(DWARD), a United States Senator from Georgia. He was born in Columbia co., Ga., in 1856, and after studying for two years at Merfor cer College, taught school. After studying law he was admitted to the bar in 1875, for a time practiced in Thompson, Ga., and was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1882-3. He became identified with the Populist movement, and elected to the was 52d Congress as a Populist, but contested unsuccessfully the elections of 1892 and 1894. At the Populist National Convention held in St. Louis in 1896 he was nominated for vice-president. For several years he conducted a Populist paper in Atlanta. In 1904 he was nominated for for president by the People's party. He began, in 1906, the publication of "Tom Watson's Magazine," in New York. He also edited the "Weekly Jeffersonian." In 1920 he was nominated for United SIR WILLIAM WATSON States Senator and was elected. He devoted much time to the study of French history and wrote "The Story of France" (1898); "Life of Napoleon" (1902). His other writings include "Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson" (1903); "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson" (1907); "The Socialist and Socialism" (1909); "The Story of the West and South" (1911).
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