Philemon Holland
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Philemon Holland was an English schoolmaster, physician and translator. He is known for the first English translations of several works by Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Plutarch, and also for translating
Philemon Holland, aged 80. An engraving by William Marshall, from a drawing by Henry Holland, Philemon's son, published in Philemon's translation of Xenophon's Cyrupaedia (1632).
Mural tablet to Philemon Holland in Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
John Speed
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John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of draw
Memorial to John Speed, St Giles-without-Cripplegate
Sir Fulke Greville
John Speed, by Salomon Savery (1594-1683)
Opening of the Genealogies, 1611