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Hornby (Mary). Occupied Shakespeare's Birth House in the early part of the nineteenth cen- tury. Author of 'The Battle of Waterloo: a Tragedy,' 1819 (reprinted 1820); 'The Broken Vow : a Comedy,' 1820 ; and ' History of the Bard and Family,' 1818. Edited ' Extemporary Verses,' 1818, and ' Extemppral Verses,' 1820.

Hunnis (Wm.). Add : Contributor to ' Paradice of Dainty Deuises,' 1576

Ingleby (Clement Mansfield), 1823-86. Add: Author of ' Essays,' ed. by his son, 1888.

Jarrold (Samuel), d, 1874. Norwich bookseller and publisher. Founder of his house.

Kemble (J. P.), 1757-1823. Add: Author of ' Fugitive Pieces,' 1780.

Kemble (Sarah). See Siddons (Mrs. Sarah). This cross-reference omitted.

Knight (Joseph), d. 1907. Editor of ' N. & Q.' Author of ' Life of David Garrick,' and of lives of actors and others in the ' D.N.B.'

Kiiott (Thomas), d. 9 July, 1839, aged 49. Pro- prietor, and for twenty-five years editor of Aria's Birmingham Gazette. One of the Governors of King Edward's School, and Bailiff of it in 1839. His career was marked with great usefulness and beneficence, and he was universally esteemed.

Knowles (Sir James), K.C.V.O., b'. 1831; d. at Brighton, 13 Feb., 1908. Editor of Contemporary Review, 1870-77. Founder, proprietor, and editor of The Ninteenth Century, and after.

Kyan (John Howard), 1774-1850. Add : Author of 'On the Elements of Light, and their Identity with those of Matter, Radiant and Fixed,' 1838, in which he advanced some startling theories.

Lear (Edward), 1812-88. Add : Author of ' Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica,' 1870; 'Letters,' ed. by Lady Strachey, 1907.

Leighton (Archibald), bookbinder. Inventor of cloth bookbinding.

Lloyd (Robert), 1733-64. Add : Author of ' Shake- speare : an Epistle to Garrick,' 1760 ; 'An Epistle to C. Churchill,' 1761. Died in the Fleet Prison.

Lomax (Thomas), Lichfield bookseller, d. 1873. Known as the "Father of the Midland book trade."

Loveling. Author of 'The First Satire of

Persius Imitated,' 1740.

Lownes (Mathew), fl. 1596-1623, publisher. Clothed by the Stationers' Company, 3 July, 1602 ; chosen assistant, 18 May, 1612.

Macdonald (Major-General Sir Hector Archibald), b. 13 April, 1852. Rose from the ranks.

MacLehose (James), Glasgow bookseller and publisher, d. Dec., 1885.

Macmillan (Alexander), 1818-96. Publisher, and one of the founders of the firm bearing his name. Son of a small farmer at Irvine, Ayrshire.

Marshall (Richard), bookseller. Assistant to B. Crosby (a. v.) One of the founders in 1815 of the firm of Simpkin & Marshall.

Mateley (Dorothy), ore- washer of Ashover, Derby- shire. Said to have been swallowed up by the earth on 23 March, 1660/61, immediately on uttering an oath to that effect.

Miles (John), bookseller. One of the founders in 1815 of the firm of Simpkin & Marshall.

Moxon (Edward), 1801-58. Add: Author of
 * Christmas : a Poem,' 1829.

Moxon (Elizabeth). Author of ' English House- Wifery,' of which the 10th ed. appeared at Leeds in 1769 ; and of ' English Housewifery Improved,'

Muir of Campsie (Wm.), b.28 Nov., 1766 ; d. 21 Oct., 1817. Wrote ' Poems on Various Subjects,' which appeared in 1818 with ' Notices Biographical and Critical.'

Murray (David Christie), b. West Bromwich, 13 April, 1847. Author of nearly fifty well-known works.

Napper of Cranleigh (Albert). Organized in 1859 the movement which resulted in the Cranleigh Village Hospital. Author of 'Advantages de- rivable by the Medical Profession and the Public: from Village Hospitals,' 1864 (several times re- printed).

Nicholson (John Aldwell), LL.D., d. Leamington. Author of ' No Cipher in Shakespeare,' 1888 ;;

'Shakespeare Sermon at Stratford - upon -

Avon,' 1897.

Overtoun (first Baron). See White (John Camx)- bell).

Pack (Richardson), 1682-1728. Add: Author of ! ' A New Collection of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse,' 1725.

Petty (W.), first Marquis of Lansdowne. Add:- ' Letters of Junius' attributed to him.

Phipsori (Dr. T. L.), b. 1833 (?) ; d. Feb., 1908, at. Putney. Author of ' Phosphorescence ' ; ' Utiliza- tion of Minute Life'; 'Some Mysteries of" Nature ' ; and other works.

Pigott (Charles), d. 1794. Add: Author of the. 'Jockey Club' memoirs, 1792, a severe attack om the British aristocracy.

Pollok (David). Author of ' Life of Robert Pollok,' ' the poet, 1843.

Pycroft (James), 1813-95. Add: Author of *A\ Course of English Reading,' 1847; ' Student's

Guide to Reading necessary for obtaining

Univ. Honours.'

Rame (Louise de la), " Ouida," novelist and essayist, b. Bury St. Edmunds, of English and French parentage ; d. 1908. Author of over forty well- known books.

Ridings (Elijah), poet, b. 27 Nov., 1802, at Fails- - worth. His complete poetical works pub. 1854 under the title of ' The Village Muse.'

Royd (Dr. Wm.), deprived Bp. of Norwich, fl. 1710.

Rylands (Enrequita), d. 4 Feb., 1908, at Torquay. Manchester benefactress. Married the millionaire - John Rylands, 1872 ; founded and endowed the sumptuous library in Deansgate, Manchester, in, his memory.

Sampson (Agnes). Accused by Geillis Duncan of witchcraft in reign of James VI. and I. Tortured \ and examined in person by the King. Condemned i to be burnt.

Sampson (John), d. July, 1887. York bookseller - and publisher.

Sande (D.). Co-author of 'Paradice of Dainty Deuises,' 1576.

Silvester (Dr. Henry Robert), b. 1828 ?); d. Feb.,. 1908, at Clapham Common. Discoverer of the - " Silvester " method for restoring the apparently drowned.

Simco (John), b. Towcester; d. 2 Feb., 1824, aged 74. Bookseller of Air Street, Piccadilly. A specialist in topography, and, as he added to the ; title of his catalogues, issued every third year, " A lover and preserver of Antiquities." In his will he left directions for the British Museum Trustees to be offered his unique extra-illustrated works at less than half the amount they cost him. The offer was refused, and the books subsequently sold for more than double the sum named.