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Terence Francis (Terry) Eagleton: compared with the best of them on July 11, though I leave you to deconstruct that phrase and assets its merits for yourself; Lancs Uni website here [serious scribes]
Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake :
completing the life of Anna Brownell Jameson on May 17
Ebles
V of Ventadorn,
married to Maria de Ventadorn on Jan 13 [she can be found among the Trobairitz and The Poets]; the Ventadorn
website here
Félix
Éboué: become
Colonial Governor of Guadeloupe in 1936, the first person of African ancestry
to hold such a post in the French Colonial Empire; later he did the same in
Chad, and French Equatorial Africa [Africa]; on Oct 21 with his wife Eugénie
Eugénie
Tell Éboué, wife of
Félix Éboué, though
she was his widow when she became the first person of African ancestry to win a
seat in the French Assembly, in 1945 [Africa; she
will eventually appear on the blog on Oct 21, once I
have completed my piece about her on the Blue-Stockings page of
Woman-Blindness]
Umberto Eco (born January 5 1932, Alessandria,
Italy; died February 19 2016): confirming that “ecology” is not “the study of the works of Umberto
Eco”, though it may include the naming of roses, on Sept 18; his website here [lighter writers]
Abraham Niclas Clewberg-Edelcrantz: the librarian at
The Royal Academy of Turku, in 1783 he moved to Stockholm to lead the Royal
Theater and later work as the private secretary of king Gustaf III; he is known
for his experiment with the optical telegraph; his marriage proposal turned
down by Maria Edgeworth on May 22
David Edgar: the heir of Brecht on May 10; inspired by Glenda Jackson on July 13; mentioned re John Lewis on May 16; bio here [the world as stage]
Richard Lovell Edgeworth: the father of Maria
Edgeworth on May 22, and himself
both a significant figure in the world of education, and an inventor
Tony Edwards: his biography of Chaucer by hyperlink on March 8
Thomas Egerton: publishing “By A Lady” on Oct 30; the full tale, at her museum, here [serious scribes]
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752-1827): green traffic-lighted on Oct 10 [reverend writers]
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969): planned the Bay of Pigs on Nov 13
Paulus von Eitzen (1521-1598): Lutheran bishop of Schleswig, got sneezed on by the plague on
March 12
Lieutenant William Ekenhead of HMS
Salsette, accompanied Byron across the Hellespont on May 3; map and route here; drowning in captaincy as the end of his sad
tale, here [on the page of The Poets]
Anna Maria Elers: mothering Maria
Edgeworth on May 22
Elijah bar Aaron Judah Ba'al Shem (no Tov) of Chelm (circa 1520-1583): confusing the reader on March 11 by Banville incorrectly giving him the same sobriquet as the “Besht” (Ba’al Shem Tov – “Master of the Good Name” though shouldn’t the
acronym be translated too: how about “the besht of the besht”, with the
Chelmische Rebbe still good, but not in Israel ben Eliezer’s league?); and as to who he was, Elijah bar Aaron Judah:
born circa 1700 in western Ukraine - might be interesting to contrast two websites, this, because
they regard him as their founder, and this, which
simply encyclopaedias him as one more piece of history. He gets his
mention on Oct 10
Richard van der Elk: his “The Virgin
Mary Magdalene” nailed to the cross on Jan 8
Meyer (but known as Michael) Elkins: authored
"Forged In Fury" on Aug 3; his obituary from "The Guardian" here [historians]
Edward Kennedy "Duke"
Ellington (born
April 29 1899; died May 24 1974): gets his trumpet blown by Joni Mitchell on Jan 5 [musical maestros]
Dina Elmaleh, but professionally
known as Rabbi Dina Brawer: became the UK's first "female
Orthodox Rabbi" on June 3; click here for her
website
Elizabeth Elstob: one of the Mary Astell circle,
and a fellow Newcastlee, on Nov 12 - well worth
further investigation in and into her own style of scholarship - start here
Keith
Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer: ruining Mussorgsky on June 2; their
own website here - and a shame
really, because they were really rather good and I was a big fan back in my
teens [musical maestros]
Robert Emmet (born March 4 1778; executed by hanging on
September 20 1803): led the struggle for independence from Britain on April 24 and the Éireland page
Philippine
Engelhard: one of the five Universitätsmamsellen
on June 14
Epictetus: translated by Elizabeth Carter and others on July 23; his name isn't actually a name so I can't
offer a surname; if I knew it I would add a number, because Epictetus means "purchased"
Erasistratus of Ceos, and sometimes not just the island but the
village, Iulis of Ceos: understood blood circulation but couldn’t prove
it, on Nov 14, which is
why he is on the E,M&C2 page, but not on the
scientific achievements/Jan 1 page
Esteban
Dorantes, or sometimes
pronounced Estevan,
and sometimes diminutived to Estabanico: a Moroccan-born Muslim slave who wound up exploring
Texas; his bio here [pre-Columban
Americas]
William Etty (born March
10 1787; died November 13 1849): biographied by Alexander
Gilchrist on Nov 30
Euclid
of Alexandria; Εὐκλείδης (325-265 BCE): decidedly minor in
Ohio on Jan 2; stuck on
amber on Aug 5 [E,M&C2]
James Reese Europe: whose
Army Jazz Band popularised jazz in France and Western Europe in 1919 [Africa]
Edgar “Taff” Evans, Petty officer, 2nd class, R.N (1876-1912):
took part in Scott's 1901-1904 Discovery Expedition on March 17, where he was particularly
relied on for the sledging operations (that’s sledging in the snow-travellers’
usage, not the Australian cricket-cheaters’). Bio here. This
goes with “Little Bowers” on Jan 17
Mathew Evans: helped light
up the laboratory of Henry Woodward on July 24
Jane Eyre: unsuitable for Casanova
on April 2 [lighter
writers]
Hans Jürgen Eysenck: referenced,
rather than actually theorising personality, on Nov 22; bio here [philosophers]
Gaspar de Ezpeleta: killed by Cervantes? don’t be ridiculous - on June 27
Ezra (Azar-Yahu ben Sera-Yahu): author of the first Bible, referenced on March 5 and 12; fully historicised, translated
and commentaried in “The Book of the Return from Exile” section of The BibleNet; Ezra 7:1-6 will
give you his entire family tree [reverend writers]
Abraham ben Meir ibn
Ezra (1089-Jan 23 1167): poet
of Moslem Spain; referenced on Oct 12
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