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• John Pentland Mahaffy — The Rev. Sir John Pentland Mahaffy GBE CVO (26 February 1839 ndash; 30 April 1919) was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar. Education and interestsHe was born near Vevey in Switzerland on 12 July 1839, receiving his early education… …   Wikipedia

• Pyotr Vyazemsky — Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky ( ru. Пëтр Андреевич Вяземский) (23 July 1792 22 November 1878) was a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. Biography His parents were a Russian prince of Rurikid stock and an Irish lady. As a …   Wikipedia

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• BEAUMAR`CHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE —    a dramatist and pleader of the most versatile, brilliant gifts, and French to the core, born in Paris, son of a watchmaker at Caen; ranks as a comic dramatist next to Molière; author of Le Barbier de Seville (1775), and Le Mariage de Figaro… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia