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Rae, John I Dr. Rae l, 1813–1893, arctic explorer. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. L.R.C.S. Edinburgh, 1833. In 1833 entered service of Hudson's Bay Co. as ship-surgeon. Remained in service of Company to end of 1854, serving for about ten years as clerk, surgeon, and trapper at Company's post at Moose Factory; then as chief trader and chief factor of Mackenzie River district and as explorer engaged in surveying and mapping unexplored land and coastline. During this time, under Admiralty orders, took part in 1848–49 and 1851 expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his crews. In 1854, while on surveying expedition, obtained from Eskimos first decisive information concerning fate of Franklin expedition. In the 1860s conducted land surveys for telegraph lines. Contributed to Nature, to Journal of Royal Geographical Society, and to other periodicals. Author of Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, in 1846 and 1847, 1850 Hon. M.D. McGill College, Montreal, 1853; Hon. LL.D. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1856. F.R.G.S., F.R.S.

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Rankin, Miss. Not identified. "Not very long ago," writes the contributor, "the course of duty carried me abroad, and I spent some time in a little continental town. ..." The name and location of the town she takes pains to conceal, for, she says, "I am about to tell the true tale of a person living in that town, and wish so to do without directing anybody's eyes towards him." The tale that she tells is the life of the town executioner, as the account was told her by the priest whose services she was in the habit of attending.

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Novelist and playwright. Author of It is Never too Late to Mend (1856), The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), Griffith Gaunt (1866), and Put yourself in his Place (1870).

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Reeves. Not identified. The contributor explains the French military system, in which a recruit advances in the ranks on the basis of merit and length of time in service, and is eligible for further promotion on the same basis. With the French system, the contributor contrasts the English system, in which promotion from the ranks is the exception and in which commissions are obtained by purchase. The evils of "our military system," he writes, are "of so crying a nature" that common sense prompts the adoption, perhaps in modified form, of the French system. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971

Reynolds, W. L. Not identified. The contributor is an English office clerk â€“ "a man who throughout life has been engaged, mostly, in climbing up and down an office stool"; has lived for many years in Corfu. He recounts a brief holiday trip in Albania that he made twenty years before in company with three young officers from the British garrison stationed in Corfu.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971

Richardson. Not identified. The writer's contribution is an amateurish story; contains some literary references: "Mariana" (Tennyson), "The Ancient Mariner," As You Like It; a tobacco-spitting American gratuitously brought in. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971

Rinder, Samuel I Render, 22 Rockingham St., Leeds; Rinder I, 1825?–1907, business. man and public official of Victoria, Australia. Born near Leeds; son of Methodist preacher. Attended school at Garforth, Yorks. Early had love of the sea and of adventure. Shipped as cabin boy on sailing vessel plying between Liverpool and New York. In early 1840s, as apprentice on the Hope of Plymouth, made voyage to Melbourne; stayed some years in Tasmania, where his uncle was Wesleyan minister. On news of California gold discovery, determined to go to California; found no vessel bound for California; shipped, instead, on vessel bound for Callao, Peru. From Callao, shipped on the Abbots Reading bound for Liverpool. After about three years in England, again made voyage to Melbourne; lived in Victoria remainder of his life. Started butcher's business in Melbourne suburb; worked for two years carting goods between Melbourne and the Castlemaine diggings; operated general merchandise stores; became one of leading businessmen, graziers, and farmers of Korong district. For forty years, secretary and treasurer of Korongshire; also justice of the peace, coroner. Was able speaker and writer; contributed to Victoria newspapers. Mentioned in obit., Wedderburn Express, Dec. 13, 1907, as writer of a H.W. article. 

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Not identified. Address: Sheffield. Sheffield directories of the 1850s list some thirty or forty male residents of the name Roberts.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Roberts. Naturalist. Roberts's H.W. article, which deals with teredos, arrived at the editorial office "per Frank Buckland." Buckland reprinted it in his Curiosities of Natural History, 2nd ser. (1860), stating that Roberts had published it in H.W. and that it was the result "of much patient investigation." Various observations on sea creatures that Buckland recorded in the first two series of Curiosities had come to him, he stated, from Roberts. Roberts had also furnished some information on Pholas to Buckland's father, Dr. WilIiam Buckland. Buckland referred to Roberts as "my learned informant and friend" and as "a great observer" of natural phenomena. He mentioned Roberts's having lived at Lyme Regis, then at Worthing and at Dover.

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The Office Book gives no clue as to the identity of the contributor, but he is clearly the Robertson mentioned in Dickens's letters to Wills, September 18 and November 10 1855. The first letter indicates that in September Robertson sent to Dickens the article "Pierre Erard" accompanying it by a letter in which he addressed Dickens familiarly. Dickens sent Robertson's letter to Wills, remarking: "I don't know that I have the least knowledge of Mr. Robertson, though he addresses me as 'Dear Dickens'". Dickens accepted the article for H.W.; Wills recorded it in the Office Book as by "Robinson". There was obviously some confusion about the writer's address, for in November Dickens wrote from Paris: "There has called on me in my absence, a Mr. John Robertson, 15, Rue de Monceau, Faubourg St. Roule. I believe this to be the writer of the Erard paper". Wills was to ascertain whether Dickens's supposition was correct and, if so, to send the writer payment for the contribution. Wills recorded payment as made by cheque, November 16. His recording of "Robinson" as the contributor's name is clearly in error. Dickens's first letter establishes the writer as Robertson; his second letter almost as definitely establishes him as John Robertson. The writer, at all events, was the Robertson who contributed to H.W. during the following three and a half years. Like the writer of various of the articles assigned to Robertson, the writer of "Pierre Erard" is in Paris and is interested in contemporary happenings in France.

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Not identified. The contributor's interests, as indicated by the three items assigned to her, are contemporary happenings in France and natural history—the same interests as those of the contributor recorded as Robertson—probably John Robertson.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Writer. Daughter of WilIiam Gibbs Rogers, wood carver (Dictionary of National Biography). Contributed to Art Journal (Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 1858-1871); contributed occasional verses to Sharpe's, Once a Week; and "The Moslem Lover's Complaint" to A Welcome, 1863. Author of Domestic Life in Palestine, 1862 [1861], the pleasant account of her residence in the East (1855-1859) with her brother Edward Thomas Rogers, then vice-consul in Haifa; and My Vis-à-Vis, 1865, verses "written during intervals of rest from work of a more serious nature". Among the verses is "Esther Summerson' s Sorrow", based on Esther's words in Bleak House, "O, too late to know it now, too late, too late". Wrote "Saint Valentine" expressly for H.W., weaving into the lines (with a poet's licence of variation) the quotation from Dickens's masthead: "Familiar in our mouths / As Household Words".

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Divine, educational reformer. Student at Eton. B.A. Oxford, 1842; M.A. 1844. Curate of St. Thomas's, Charterhouse, 1845-1863; thereafter rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. Worked for the improvement of the social condition of his parishioners; established numerous schools for the poor and the middle class. Published reports of the schools; also sermons.

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Translator; daughter of William Ross, reporter and translator for the Times. On staff of Literary Gazette when Jerdan became editor of that periodical in 1817; was, according to him, a "ready and excellent translator", a writer "whose talents were of a sound order, especially for a youthful female" (Autobiography, II, 178, 236-237). Contributed to Polytechnic Journal and Bentley's Miscellany. Published, 1823, translation of Bouterwek's History of Spanish Literature; 1847, Tschudi's Travels in Peru; 1849, El Buscapié; 1852, Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions. Commended by Ticknor, History of Spanish Literature (1849, I, 33n), for "taste and skill" of her translation of Bouterwek; by Quarterly Review (September 1847) for "ease and fluency" of her translation of Tschudi. In 1856 granted Civil List pension of £50 a year "In consideration of her literary merits" (Colles, Literature and the Pension List).

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Author and translator. Born in West Indies; as very young child, taken by her widowed mother to Copenhagen; later lived in Weimar and Paris, thereafter in London; became proficient in Scandinavian languages as well as in German and French. For many years was private secretary to Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, M.P.; assisted him in his philanthropic work. During later years of her life was a Swedenborgian. Published History of the French Revolution, 1844; wrote, for Chambers's Library for Young People, a history of England and one of Scotland. Edited Morceaux choisis des auteurs modernes, 1847. Translated a novel from the Swedish of C. A. Wetterbergh and, from the German, the life of Friedrich SchIeiermacher. Commissioned by Queen Victoria to translate selections from Stunden der Andacht, a devotional work generally attributed to J. H. D. Zschokke; the selections published in 2 volumes, 1862, 1863. Contributed "A Norwegian Legend. From the Danish" to A Welcome, 1863. Translated various reports and pamphlets for the Foreign Office. Described by George Eliot, who met her in 1852, as "a learned lady in spectacles" (Letters, II, 9).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

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Philosopher, political writer. Born in Bergen on island of Rügen. Studied at Halle, Jena, and Heidelberg. Became adherent of party that sought to create free, united Germany. Imprisoned, 1824-1830, for his views and activities. Was for some years university professor. Co-Founder, 1838, of Hallische Jahrbücher für deutsche Wissenschaft und Kunst, in which he discussed questions of the time from the point of view of Hegelian philosophy; the periodical suppressed in 1843. In revolutionary movement of 1848, organized Extreme Left in Frankfurt Parliament. Forced to flee Germany; took refuge in London. There helped form European Democratic Committee, but soon withdrew from its activities. Settled in Brighton; resided there for remainder of his life, having become naturalized British citizen; supported himself by teaching and writing; at times lectured in London. In 1866 strongly supported Prussia against Austria, and in 1870 Germany against France. In last years of his life received pension from German government. Was important not only for philosophical and political writings, but for literary and aesthetic criticism; was also dramatist, poet, narrative writer. His Gesammelte Schriften, 10 volumes, published 1846-1848; his memoirs, Aus früherer Zeit, 1862-1867. Mention of him in English writings appears in memoirs and letters, as in those of William James Linton, Gustave Strauss, George Eliot, and others.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Barrister. Son of Edward Rushton, stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool. Admitted at Gray's Inn, 1861; called to the bar, 1865; resided in Liverpool; member of Northern Circuit (Foster, Men-at-the-Bar: A Biographical Hand-List of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, 1855). In 1858 published his first book, Shakespeare a Lawyer; its contents appropriated by Chief Justice Lord Campbell in Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements, 1859, without acknowledgment to Rushton. Continued the subject of Shakespeare and law in later writings: Shakespeare's Legal Maxims, Shakespeare's Testamentary Language, Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta. His other books on Shakespeare were Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors, Shakespeare's Euphuism, Shakespeare Hymn Tune Book, Shakespeare an Archer, Shakespeare and "The Arte of English Poesie". Some of the material in his books first appeared in Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, some in Notes & Queries. His books show extensive knowledge of early English law and wide reading in early English authors; commended by reviewers. Rushton's "valuable pamphlets on Shakespearean subjects" referred to by the Cowden Clarkes (Recollections of Writers, p. 112). Picture of him in Jaggard's Shakespeare Bibliography. Published Rules and Cautions in English Grammar, 1869; edited letters of his father: Letters of a Templar, 1903. Was corresponding member of Society for the Study of Modern Languages, Berlin; of State Historical Society of Wisconsin; and of Manchester Shakespeare Society.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

War correspondent. Attended Trinity College, Dublin; took no degree. Admitted at Middle Temple, 1846; called to the bar, 1850; did not long pursue legal career. Became periodical contributor and newspaper reporter. For some time on staff of Morning Chronicle. In July 1850, sent by the Times to report Schleswig-Holstein War and later in same year to report a French naval review at Cherbourg. In 1854 sent to the Crimea; his Crimean letters in the Times established his fame as war correspondent. Served thereafter as correspondent during Indian Mutiny, American Civil War, Austro-Prussian War, Franco-Prussian War, South African War. In 1860 founded the Army and Navy Gazette; edited it to time of his death. Contributed to Cornhill and other periodicals. Published some fifteen books, most of them reprintings or recastings of his journalistic work (Dictionary of National Biography). Hon. LL.D. Trinity College, 1856; knighted 1895; recipient of many medals and orders.

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Theologian.  Educated at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth; ordained 1835. Professor of ecclesiastical history, St. Patrick's College; appointed president, 1857. Exercised considerable influence on Tractarian movement in England. Noted for his antiquarian research. Closely associated with Wiseman in editorship of Dublin Review from time of its founding to 1863; wrote numerous articles for the periodical. Contributed also to Edinburgh Review, North British Review, the Month, and other periodicals. Author of The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, 1858; co-editor of A Report on the Carte Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 1871; editor of Calendar of Irish State Papers, 1872-1877.

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