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Sulston, Sir John Edward

(Encyclopedia) Sulston, Sir John Edward, 1942–2018, British molecular biologist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1966. He was staff scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, from…

Beaufort, Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby

(Encyclopedia) Beaufort, Margaret, countess of Richmond and DerbyBeaufort, Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derbybōˈfərt, därˈbē [key], 1443–1509, English noblewoman, mother of Henry VII. She was…

Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer

(Encyclopedia) Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, 1890–1962, English statistician and geneticist, b. East Finchley, Middlesex, England; educated at Cambridge (1909–1915; Sc.D., 1926). From 1919 to 1933 he…

Maurice, Frederick Denison

(Encyclopedia) Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805–72, English clergyman and social reformer. He was brought up a Unitarian but became an Anglican. He studied law at Cambridge and was a founder of the…

Winter, Sir Gregory Paul

(Encyclopedia) Winter, Sir Gregory Paul, 1951–, British biochemist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1976. He has spent most of his career as a researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England…

Peacham, Henry

(Encyclopedia) Peacham, Henry, 1576?–1643?, English author, b. Hertfordshire, educated at Cambridge. The Compleat Gentleman (1622), his best-known work, offers his formula for the ideal Englishman.…

Digby, Kenelm Henry

(Encyclopedia) Digby, Kenelm Henry, 1800–1880, English author, b. Ireland. He converted to Roman Catholicism after his graduation from Cambridge. His principal works are The Broadstone of Honour (…

Dent, Edward Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876–1957, English musicologist. He studied and taught at Cambridge. Dent wrote biographies of Alessandro Scarlatti (1905), Busoni (1933), and Handel (1934), and…

Thompson, Guy Lawrence

(Encyclopedia) Thompson, Guy Lawrence, 1897–1970, English surgeon, writer, and naturalist, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, he wrote Eric and Joan (…

Garth, Sir Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Garth, Sir Samuel, 1661–1719, English poet and physician, b. Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Leiden and Cambridge. His chief work is the satirical poem The Dispensary (1699), in…