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 physician, and became President of the College of Physicians, and was knighted by Charles II. He was a great friend of his fellow countryman Harvey, and published a work in defence of that physician's great discovery, entitled "Apologia pro Circulatione Sanguinis contra Æmilianum Parisanum," 1641. His whole works were published at Leyden, 1687. He died in 1689.

[See Munk's "College of Physicians," "Harvey's Works," by Willis.]

JOHN EVELYN,

ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR,

Was born at Sayes Court, Deptford, Jan. 14, 1654-5, and was the third son of the celebrated John Evelyn, of Wotton, in Surrey. John Evelyn, jun. was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and, though he took no degree there, he became an elegant scholar. He translated from the Latin the work of "Renatus Rapinus on Gardens," also "Plutarch's Life of Alexander," and a History of the Turks, from the French; and he was the author of several poems, as well as his celebrated "Diary." He died in 1698.

[See his Diary, "Wood's Athenæ Oxon," by Bliss, "Biographia Britannica," etc., etc.]

ROBERT FILMER,

POLITICAL WRITER,

Was born at East Sutton. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote several remarkable works on Government, the chief of which were "The Anarchy