Tag: Biography
Pieter Bruegel Pieter Bruegel (525-69), Flemish painter. He is particularly well known for his lively and detailed paintings of peasant life, peopled with tiny active figures, such as Months …
The Robert Bruce The Robert Bruce (1274-1329), King of Scotland from 1306, who led the Scots against the English and won Scottish independence. His grandfather had unsuccessfully claimed the …
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), British poet. She was educated at home and began writing while still very young. An injury to her spine in a childhood …
John Brown John Brown (1800-59), US antislavery militant. A White man, Brown settled in a Negro community with his family in 1849. He organized armed raids on sup-porters of …
Jim Brown Jim Brown, full name James Nathaniel Brown (1936), US Black American football player. At Syracuse University, Brown showed outstanding promise in boxing, basketball, and baseball as well …
Capability Brown Capability Brown nickname of Lancelot Brown (1715-83). British landscape gardener. He started work as a kitchen gardener but his extensive schemes for landscape improvement soon won him …
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948), Scottish aviator. During World War I he served in the Royal Flying Corps. In June 1919 he and Captain John …
Sisters Brontë Sisters Brontë A family of British novelists, Charlotte (1816-55), Emily Jane (1818-48), and Anne (1820-49). The daughters of a clergyman, they had a lonely upbringing at Haworth …
