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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Elliston

Britannica 11th

ELLISTON, ROBERT WILLIAM (1774-1831), English actor, was born in London on the 7th of April 1774, the son of a watchmaker. He was educated at St Paul's school, but ran away from home and made his first appearance on the stage as Tressel in Richard III. at Bath ...

Vol. 9, pp. 294-294 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Elliotson

Britannica 11th

ELLIOTSON, JOHN (1791-1868), English physician, was born at Southwark, London, on the 29th of October 1791. He studied medicine first at Edinburgh and then at Cambridge, in both which places he took the degree of M.D., and subsequently in London at St Thomas's

Vol. 9, pp. 291-291 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 37.06

Ellis

Britannica 11th

ELLIS (originally SHARPE), ALEXANDER JOHN (1814-1890), English philologist, mathematician, musician and writer on phonetics, was born at Hoxton on the i.|i li of June 1814. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degre

Vol. 9, pp. 293-293 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 34.62