Tag: Biography
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 …
Luis Bunuel Luis Bunuel (1900-83), Spanish film director. He worked in France in the 1920s and there collaborated with the surrealist painter Salvador Dali on Un Chien andalou (1928). …
Buddha Buddha, title of Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BO), The founder of Buddhism, whose title means `enlightened one’. He was the son of a king of the warrior caste and …
Marcus Junius Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), Roman politician. Although he had constantly opposed Julius Caesar’s policies and fought for the republicans in 49 BC, Caesar pardoned and …
Filippo Brunelleschi Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), Italian architect and sculptor of the early Renaissance. He trained as a gold-smith and sculptor and later became interested in mathematical perspective. He invented …
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), British engineer. Brunel worked with his father, also an engineer, on a number of early experimental projects. His first important achievement was …
Brummell Beau Brummell Beau nickname of George Brummell (1778-1840), British gentleman of fashion. He became a friend of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) at Eton, and after …
