81) Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sir Humphrey, 1537?-1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knighted (1570) for his service in the campaigns in Ireland,...
82) Kerr, Jean Collins. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Kerr, Jean Collins, 1923-, American comic author and playwright, b. Scranton, Pa., wife of Walter Kerr. Her novel Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) was later made...
83) Bomberg, David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...English artist. Bomberg was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1905 and studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art. His abstract works are filled...
84) Lockhart, John Gibson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Scottish editor, lawyer, literary critic, and biographer; son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. A major contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, he also was...
85) Rich, Penelope, Lady. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...1562-1607, the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591). Daughter of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, she married (1581) Lord Rich (later...
86) Harriot, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(harīet) (KEY) , 1560-1621, English mathematician and astronomer. He was tutor to Sir Walter Raleigh, who sent him in 1585 to Virginia as surveyor with Sir Richard...
87) Amadas, Philip. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...amīdas) (KEY) , 1550-1618, English navigator. With Arthur Barlowe he was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 to explore the North American coast. Their favorable report...
88) Tintern Abbey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...an abbey, Monmouthshire, W. England, near Chepstow. It was founded for Cistercians in 1131 by Walter de Clare and now consists mainly of 13th- and 14-century English...
89) Weir, Julian Alden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(KEY) , 1852-1919, b. West Point, N.Y., American painter. He studied with his father Robert Walter Weir, a landscape painter of the Hudson River school, at the National...
90) Cavendish, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...navigator. He commanded a ship in the flotilla under Sir Richard Grenville sent (1585) by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first colony in Virginia. In 1586, in...
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