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 ...

Born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., and developed basketball’s original 13 rules Author of ...

Born in Kiel, Holstein Germany, brewer and hotelier, Otto Klotz, immigrated to Preston, Ontario in 1837. Within a year, he was elected to the Board of School Trustees where he served as ...

In 1882 Samuel Mathers was admitted to the Rosicrucian Society of England (SRIA) where he met Dr. Woodman and Dr. Westcott who commissioned his English translation of Knorr Von Rosenroth’s Latin ...

Born Adolph, he changed his name to Arthur during World War I but was known professionally as Harpo. The second oldest of the four Marx brothers comedy team, Harpo rarely if ever spoke while in ...

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 ...

The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley was a medical doctor, Anglican priest, field archeologist and antiquarian.

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 ...

Born in Newry, Ireland, at the age of ten he moved to Quebec City with his parents. He was called to the bar in Canada East in 1858 and three years later in Upper Canada. Moving to the Cariboo in 1862 ...

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 ...

Eldest son of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort, Albert Edward was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from 1901.