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Scott, Sir George Gilbert

(Encyclopedia)Scott, Sir George Gilbert, 1811–78, English architect. Prominent in the Gothic revival, he designed many public structures. He also directed a vast amount of Gothic restoration work, beginning with ...

Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert

(Encyclopedia)Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert: see under Scott, Sir George Gilbert. ...

Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert

(Encyclopedia)Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert, 1929–2018, British athlete and neurologist. On May 6, 1954, at Oxford's Iffley Road track, Bannister, a medical student, became the first man to run the mile in less th...

Hewish, Antony

(Encyclopedia)Hewish, Antony, 1924–, British astrophysicist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1952. Hewish spent his entire career as a faculty member at Cambridge, retiring in 1989. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics wit...

Bingham, Hiram, 1831–1908, American Congregationalist missionary

(Encyclopedia)Bingham, Hiram, 1831–1908, American Congregationalist missionary, b. Honolulu; son of Hiram Bingham (1789–1869). In 1857 he founded a mission on Abaiang in the Gilbert Islands (now part of Kiribat...

Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour

(Encyclopedia)Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, 1842–1900, English composer, famous for a series of brilliant comic operas written in collaboration with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. As a boy he sang in the choir of ...

Banaba

(Encyclopedia)Banaba bənäˈbə [key] or Ocean Island, island, 2.2 sq mi (5.7 sq km), central Pacific, in ...

Butaritari

(Encyclopedia)Butaritari māˈkĭn, mŭgˈĭn [key], triangular atoll (4.5 sq mi/11.7 sq km), central Pacific, in the ...

Carte, Richard D'Oyly

(Encyclopedia)Carte, Richard D'Oyly doiˈlē kärt [key], 1844–1901, English impresario. His choice of presentations did much to raise the level of English musical theater. In 1875 he produced Trial by Jury, the ...

MacInnes, Helen

(Encyclopedia)MacInnes, Helen: see under Highet, Gilbert. ...