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SEAMAN, OWEN (1861– )

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SEAMAN, OWEN (1861– )

SEAMAN, See also:
OWEN, JOHN (1616-1683)
OWEN, JOHN [OVENUS Or AUDOENUS] (c. 1560-1622)
OWEN, ROBERT (1771-1858)
OWEN, SIR HUGH (1804-1881)
OWEN, SIR RICHARD (1804–1892)
OWEN (1861– ) , See also:

ENGLISH

English humorist and author, was educated at See also:

Shrewsbury school and See also:

Clare See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the classical tripos in 1883; in the next See also:

YEAR

year he became a See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master at Rossall school; and in 1890 he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of literature at the See also:

Durham College of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science, See also:

Newcastle-on-See also:

TYNE

Tyne. He was called to the See also:

bar at the Inner See also:

Temple in 1897. He was introduced to See also:

PUNCH

Punch in 1894, with his " See also:

RHYME

Rhyme of the Kipperling," a See also:

PARODY (Gr. s-apybia, literally a song sung beside, a comic parallel)

parody of Rudyard See also:

KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865— )

Kipling's " Rhyme of the Three Sealers." He also wrote for The See also:

NATIONAL

National Observer and The See also:

WORLD

World. In 1894 he published a See also:

VOLUME

volume of parodies which is a classic of its See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace at Cambridge, followed by The See also:

BATTLE

Battle of the Bays (1896), In Cap and Bells (1899), Borrowed Plumes (1902), A See also:

HARVEST (A.S. hcerfest " autumn," O.H. Ger. herbist, possibly through an old Teutonic root representing Lat. car pere, " to pluck ")

Harvest of See also:

CHAFF (from the A.S. ceaf, allied to the O. High Ger. cheva, a husk or pod)

Chaff (1904). He joined the See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of Punch in 1897, and shortly afterwards became assistant-editor, succeeding See also:

Sir F. C. See also:

BURNAND, SIR FRANCIS COWLEY (1836- )

Burnand as editor in 1906.

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