Category: Biography
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-82). US poet. He was professor of modern languages at Bowdoin and Harvard from 1829 to 1854, when he gave up teaching to …
John Locke John Locke, (1632-1704). British philosopher. Medicine and experimental science were his early interests and he joined the Royal Society in 1668. In 1667 Lord Shaftesbury appointed Locke …
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, (1948- ). British popular composer. His first musical was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1968), written to be performed by …
David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, (1863-1945). Welsh Liberal statesman. After a poor childhood he became a solicitor and in 1890 was elected MP for Caernarvon Boroughs, a seat …
David Livingstone David Livingstone, (1813-73). Scottish missionary and explorer. He studied medicine and in 1840 was ordained as a missionary. The following year he went to southern Africa and …
Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, (1811-86). Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor. Before he was 20 he had established an international reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He wrote many celebrated works …
Joseph Lister Joseph Lister, (1827-1912). British surgeon. Making use of Louis Pasteur’s discovery that infections could be caused by germs carried in the air, he founded antiseptic surgery in …
Carolus Linnaeus Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-78). Swedish botanist, born Carl untie, who established a system for naming and classifying plants and animals that is, still used today. While a lecturer …
