Samuel Butler Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British novelist. He shocked his family by refusing to follow his father into the Church and in 1860 immigrated to New Zealand. Money earned …
George Bush George Bush (1924), US statesman and 41st president of the US (1989-93). The son of a wealthy Republican family, Bush worked in the oil industry before entering …
Richard Burton Richard Burton (1925-84), Welsh actor. After some years with the Old Vic Company, during which he played several Shakespearean leads, he went to Holly-Wood in 1952. Helped by …
William Seward Burroughs William Seward Burroughs (1914), US novelist. After studying at Harvard, Burroughs lived a bohemian life in New York, where he made friends with Jack Kerouac, Allen …
Robert Burns Robert Burns (1759-96), Scottish poet. He started work as a farmer but was not very successful. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) was intended to pay …
Edmund Burke Edmund Burke (1729-97), British Whig statesman. He entered Parliament in 1765, where he soon became a powerful and eloquent speaker. He advocated reconciliation with the American colonies …
William Cecil Lord Burghley William Cecil Lord Burghley (1520-98), English statesman. On Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne (1558) he was made her sole secretary and in 1572 be-came …
John Bunyan John Bunyan (1628-88), English religious writer. The son of a Bedfordshire tinker, he joined the Baptist Church in 1653 and later became a preacher. Puritan preaching was …
