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(Encyclopedia)Howard, Henry: see Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of. ...Catherine Howard
(Encyclopedia)Catherine Howard, queen of England: see Howard, Catherine. ...Howard, Charles, 1st earl of Carlisle
(Encyclopedia)Howard, Charles, 1st earl of Carlisle: see Carlisle, Charles Howard, 1st earl of. ...Howard, Frederick, 5th earl of Carlisle
(Encyclopedia)Howard, Frederick, 5th earl of Carlisle: see Carlisle, Frederick Howard, 5th earl of. ...Walter of Henley
(Encyclopedia)Walter of Henley or Walter de Henley, fl. 13th cent., English writer on agriculture. His treatise Husbandry, written in Norman French in the mid-13th cent., was the great medieval authority in England...Mapes, Walter
(Encyclopedia)Mapes, Walter: see Map, Walter.Overbury, Sir Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Overbury, Sir Thomas, 1581–1613, English author and courtier. He was a friend and adviser to Robert Carr, an Oxford acquaintance. The two quarreled violently when Overbury disapproved of Carr's marr...Howard, Oliver Otis
(Encyclopedia)Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830–1909, Union general in the Civil War, founder of Howard Univ., b. Leeds, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1850, and West Point, 1854. Made a brigadier general of volunteers (S...de la Mare, Walter
(Encyclopedia)de la Mare, Walter də lə mâr [key], 1873–1956, English poet and novelist. For many years he worked in the accounting department of the Anglo-American Oil Company. Much of his verse and prose show...Walter Sans Avoir
(Encyclopedia)Walter Sans Avoir, Fr. Gautier Sans-Avoir, d. 1096, French Crusader, known as Walter the Penniless. He joined Peter the Hermit as leader of an army to the Holy Land. In what came to be known as the Po...Browse by Subject
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