William John Chetwode Crawley, for many years Head Master of the Queen’s Service Acadamy, Dublin, was, after a lengthy university career, elected a life member of the senate of Trinity College, Dublin ...

Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention. In Un ...

Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller’s major poetic and dramatic works — Die Räuber (1782), Don Carlos (1787), Wallenstein Stuart (1800) and Wilhelm Tell (1804) — all express a yearning for ...

Burton was an English scholar-explorer and author of 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated 16-volume translation of The Arabian Nights ...

French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, designed the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. Intended to celebrate the centenary of the American Revolution, it was not completed until 1886.

Born in Dublin, Swift took religious orders in 1694 and was appointed Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. Author of such social satires as Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest ...

Remembered today for Butchart Gardens—now a famous tourist attraction near Victoria, British Columbia—created by his wife, Jeannie, in the abandoned quarries surrounding their home. BUTCHART, Robert ...

Lawyer and Dean of Law at McGill University, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was elected as Conservative MP in 1857 and appointed to the Senate in 1887. On June 13, 1891 he was chosen as caretaker Prime ...

Born in Culloden, P.E.I., John MacLean gave up farming to travel west in 1892. He became a school principal in Rossland and later a medical doctor. With little political experiance, he was elected to ...

Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin, Ireland, graduating from Trinity College with honours in mathematics. In 1872, Stoker published his first melodrama, The Crystal Cup, a dream fantasy. While ...

In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after ...

Born Erich Weiss, Harry Houdini was a world famous escape artist and trapeze performer, as well as the inventor of the diving suit, and the first successful aviator in Australia. Houdini was not alone ...