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6https://historysoa.com/items/show/6Burke, Ulick Ralph<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Burke%2C+Ulick+Ralph+%281845%E2%80%931895%29">Burke, Ulick Ralph (1845–1895)</a>Ulick Ralph Burke (1845–1895); barrister, Spanish scholar and translator.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Burke-Ulick-Ralph<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Basil+Montagu+Pickering">Basil Montagu Pickering</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chapman+%26+Hall">Chapman &amp; Hall</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=+E.+and+F.+Spon"> E. and F. Spon</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Field+%26+Tuer">Field &amp; Tuer</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=John+Murray">John Murray</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Longmans%2C+Green%2C+%26+Co.">Longmans, Green, &amp; Co.</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Remington+%26+Co.">Remington &amp; Co.</a><a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4029</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Spanish+Scholar">Spanish Scholar</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Barrister">Barrister</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=84&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1884">1884</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1895">1895</a>Ulick Ralph Burke (1845–1895; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); Spanish scholar and translator. Works include <span><em>Sancho Panza's Proverbs </em>(1872), reissued in 1877 and 1892. One of the founding members of the Society of Authors.</span><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1845">1845</a>Burke, Ulick Ralph. <em>A History of Spain: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the Catholic.</em> 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green, &amp; Co., 1895. <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SKk2AAAAMAAJ&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SKk2AAAAMAAJ&amp;</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/6/1895-Burke-Ulick-Ralph-A-History-of-Spain.jpgfounders, languages, translation
28https://historysoa.com/items/show/28Burton, Richard Francis<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Burton%2C+Richard+Francis+%281821%E2%80%931890%29">Burton, Richard Francis (1821–1890)</a>Richard Burton (1821–1890); explorer and author.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Burton-Richard-Francis<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4136" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4136</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1884+%28Vice-President%29">1884 (Vice-President)</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Vice-President">Vice-President</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Author">Author</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Explorer">Explorer</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1890">1890</a>Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); explorer, author, geographer, translator, linguist, poet and diplomat. Published over forty books, mostly travel narratives or translations. <span>Appointed a Vice-President of the Society of Authors.</span><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1821">1821</a>Lock &amp; Whitfield, Sir Richard Francis Burton. Woodburytype. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1876. NPG Ax17479 © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="40%20books and countless articles, monographs and letters. Most of Burton's books are travel narratives or translations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw122121/Sir-Richard-Francis-Burton</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/28/1876-Burton-Richard-Francis.jpggeography, languages, poetry, politics, translation, travel writing, Vice-Presidents
228https://historysoa.com/items/show/228Farrar, Frederic William<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Farrar%2C+Frederic+William+%281831%E2%80%931903%29">Farrar, Frederic William (1831–1903)</a>Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903); dean of Canterbury, novelist and philologist.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Farrar-Frederic-William<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33088</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Vice-President">Vice-President</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Author">Author</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Dean">Dean</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Philologist">Philologist</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1903">1903</a>Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); dean of Canterbury, novelist and philologist. Published religious and historical works; also wrote several novels (primarily school stories). <span>Appointed a Vice-President of the Society of Authors.</span><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1831">1831</a>Bassano, Alexander. Portrait of Frederic William Farrar. Half-Plate Glass Negative. 1883. NPG x127645 © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw111778/Frederic-William-Farrar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw111778/Frederic-William-Farrar</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/228/1883-Farrar-Frederic-William.jpgfiction, history, languages, theology, Vice-Presidents
148https://historysoa.com/items/show/148Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Meiklejohn%2C+John+Miller+Dow+%281836%E2%80%931902%29">Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow (1836–1902)</a>J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1836–1902); writer of school books.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Meiklejohn-John-Miller-Dow<a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34977</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Author">Author</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1902">1902</a>J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1836–1902; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); writer of school books. Primarily wrote educational books about the English language and teaching pupils to read; published his own books after disagreements with his publishers.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1836">1836</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a>Portrait of J. M. D. Meiklejohn. Photograph. https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/148/Meiklejohn-J-M-D.jpegCouncil, education, languages, publishing
150https://historysoa.com/items/show/150Müller, Friedrich Max<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M%C3%BCller%2C+Friedrich+Max+%281823%E2%80%931900%29">Müller, Friedrich Max (1823–1900)</a>Max Müller (1823–1900); Sanskritist and philologist.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Muller-Friedrich-Max<a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18394" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18394</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Philologist">Philologist</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1900">1900</a>Max Müller (1823–1900; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); Sanskritist and philologist. His first book was a German translation of the Sanskrit collection of didactic fables, the <em>Hitopadeśa</em> (1844); published a range of academic works on classics and religion.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1823">1823</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=69&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1890">1890</a>Bassana, Alexander. Portrait of Friedrich Max Müller. Photograph. 1883. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller#/media/File:Friedrich_Max_M%C3%BCller_by_Bassano_1883.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller#/media/File:Friedrich_Max_M%C3%BCller_by_Bassano_1883.jpg</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/150/1883-Mu_ller-Friedrich-Max.jpegCouncil, languages, theology, translation
226https://historysoa.com/items/show/226Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Rawlinson%2C+Henry+Creswicke+%281810%E2%80%931895%29">Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (1810–1895)</a>Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, first baronet (1810–1895); Assyriologist and diplomatist.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Rawlinson-Henry-Creswicke<a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23190" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23190</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Vice-President">Vice-President</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Diplomatist">Diplomatist</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Scholar">Scholar</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1895">1895</a>Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, first baronet (1810–1895; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); Assyriologist and diplomatist. Published works on cuneiform inscriptions and articles for the <em>Encyclopædia Britannica</em>. <span>Appointed a Vice-President of the Society of Authors.</span><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1810">1810</a>Lock &amp; Whitfield. Portrait of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Bt by Lock &amp; Whitfield. Woodburytype. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1882. NPG Ax17660 © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw120775/Sir-Henry-Creswicke-Rawlinson-1st-Bt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw120775/Sir-Henry-Creswicke-Rawlinson-1st-Bt</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/226/1882-Rawlinson-Henry-Creswicke.jpghistory, India, languages, military, politics, Vice-Presidents
61https://historysoa.com/items/show/61Skeat, Walter William<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Skeat%2C+Walter+William+%281835%E2%80%931912%29">Skeat, Walter William (1835–1912)</a>Walter William Skeat (1835–1912); philologist.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Skeat-Walter-William<a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36116</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1884+%28Vice-President%29">1884 (Vice-President)</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Vice-President">Vice-President</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Professor">Professor</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912">1912</a>Walter William Skeat (1835–1912; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); philologist.<span> Elected to the new Elrington and Bosworth professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge in 1878. </span>Edited a range of works including Chaucer and Anglo-Saxon texts, and also published textbooks promoting the study of the English language. Appointed a Vice-President of the Society of Authors.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1835">1835</a><p class="title">Elliott &amp; Fry. Portrait of Walter William Skeat. Albumen Cabinet Card. 1890s. NPG x25922 <span>© National Portrait Gallery, London.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121398/Walter-William-Skeat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121398/Walter-William-Skeat</a>.</p>https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/61/1890s-Skeat-Walter-William.jpgediting, education, languages, translation, Vice-Presidents