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O'Brien, Lucius Richard

(Encyclopedia) O'Brien, Lucius Richard, 1832–99, Canadian landscape painter. He worked in an architect's office and later became an engineer. He is noted for his watercolor landscapes, especially of…

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

(Encyclopedia) Krafft-Ebing, Richard vonKrafft-Ebing, Richard vonrĭkhˈärt fən kräft-āˈbĭng [key], 1840–1902, German physician and neurologist. Professor of psychiatry at Strasbourg (1872), Graz (1873…

Burton, Sir Richard Francis

(Encyclopedia) Burton, Sir Richard Francis, 1821–90, English explorer, writer, and linguist. He joined (1842) the service of the East India Company and, while stationed in India, acquired a thorough…

Carte, Richard D'Oyly

(Encyclopedia) Carte, Richard D'OylyCarte, Richard D'Oylydoiˈlē kärt [key], 1844–1901, English impresario. His choice of presentations did much to raise the level of English musical theater. In 1875…

Cartwright, Sir Richard John

(Encyclopedia) Cartwright, Sir Richard John, 1835–1912, Canadian politician, b. Kingston, Ont. He was elected as a Conservative to the legislative assembly of Canada (1863) and to the first dominion…

Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg

(Encyclopedia) Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, 1817–73, Union general in the Civil War, b. Kentucky, grad. West Point, 1839. He fought in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War. In the Civil War,…

Synge, Richard Laurence Millington

(Encyclopedia) Synge, Richard Laurence Millington, 1914–94, British biochemist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1941. Synge was a researcher at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, from 1943 to 1948…

Tolbert, William Richard, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Tolbert, William Richard, Jr.Tolbert, William Richard, Jr.tŏlˈbərt [key], 1913–80, president of Liberia (1971–80). In government since 1935, he was vice president (1951–71), succeeding…