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See also:OGILBY, See also:JOHN (1600–1676) , See also:British writer, was See also:born in or near See also:Edinburgh in See also:November 1600. His See also:father was a prisoner within the rules of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Bench, but by See also:speculation the son found See also:money to apprentice himself to a dancing See also:master and to obtain his father's See also:release. He accompanied See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Wentworth, See also:earl of See also:Strafford, when he went to See also:Ireland as See also:lord See also:deputy, and became See also:tutor to his See also:children. Strafford made him deputy-master of the See also:revels, and he built a little See also:theatre in St Werburgh See also:Street, See also:Dublin, which was very successful. The outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War ruined his fortunes, and in 1646 he returned to See also:England. Finding his way to See also:Cambridge, he learned Latin from kindly scholars who had been impressed by his See also:industry. He then ventured to translate See also:Virgil into See also:English See also:verse (1649–1650), which brought him a considerable sum of money. The success of this See also:attempt encouraged Ogilby to learn See also:Greek from See also:David Whitford, who was See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher in the school kept by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Shirley the dramatist. See also:Homer his Iliads translated . . . appeared in 166o, and in 1665 Homer his Odysses translated . . . See also:Anthony a See also:Wood asserts that in these undertakings he had the assistance of Shirley. At the Restoration Ogilby received a See also:commission for the " poetical See also:part " of the See also:coronation. His See also:property was destroyed in the See also:Great See also:Fire of 1666, but he rebuilt his See also:house in Whitefriars, and set up a See also:printing See also:press, from which he issued
many magnificent books, the most important of which were a See also:series of atlases, with engravings and maps by See also:Hollar and others. He styled himself " His See also:Majesty's Cosmographer and Geographic Printer." He died in See also:London on the 4th of See also:September 1676.
Ogilby also translated the fables of See also:Aesop, and wrote three epic poems. His bulky output was ridiculed by John See also:Dryden in Mac-See also:Flecknoe and by See also:Alexander See also:Pope in the Dunciad.
End of Article: OGILBY, JOHN (1600–1676)
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