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<html> <head> <title>Literary Club</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Literary Club ORGANIZATION Location: <a href="/geo/881/000069674/" class=proflink>London, England</a> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000084806/">Matthew Arnold</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Dec-1822</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1888</tt></td> <td>Culture and Anarchy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000100774/">Sir Joseph Banks</a></td> <td><center>Botanist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1743</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1820</tt></td> <td>Accompanied James Cook</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/256/000085001/">James Boswell</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1740</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1795</tt></td> <td>The Life of Samuel Johnson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/019/000084764/">Edmund Burke</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1729</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1797</tt></td> <td>Reflections on the Revolution in France</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/208/000102899/">Charles Burney</a></td> <td><center>Musicologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1726</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1814</tt></td> <td>History of Music</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000092200/">Charles James Fox</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1749</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1806</tt></td> <td>U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/423/000087162/">David Garrick</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1717</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1779</tt></td> <td>Manager of Drury Lane Theatre</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/012/000084757/">Edward Gibbon</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1737</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1794</tt></td> <td>Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/303/000092027/">William Ewart Gladstone</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-1809</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1898</tt></td> <td>Four times UK Prime Minister</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/646/000095361/">Oliver Goldsmith</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1730</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1774</tt></td> <td>The Vicar of Wakefield</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/189/000101883/">Sir John Hawkins</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1719</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1789</tt></td> <td>History of Music</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/273/000102964/">Joseph Dalton Hooker</a></td> <td><center>Botanist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1817</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td>Genera Plantarum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000085158/">Samuel Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Lexicographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1709</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1784</tt></td> <td>A Dictionary of the English Language</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000050457/">Lord Kelvin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1907</tt></td> <td>Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000024895/">Rudyard Kipling</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td>The Jungle Book</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000095743/">Edmond Malone</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1741</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1812</tt></td> <td>Irish Shakespearian scholar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000097398/">Thomas Percy</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1729</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1811</tt></td> <td>Percy Reliques</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000084646/">Joshua Reynolds</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1723</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1792</tt></td> <td>English portraitist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/253/000101947/">Richard Brinsley Sheridan</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1751</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jul-1816</tt></td> <td>The School for Scandal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000030219/">Adam Smith</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1723</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1790</tt></td> <td>The Wealth of Nations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000098096/">Archibald Campbell Tait</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1882</tt></td> <td>Archbishop of Canterbury, 1868-82</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000024787/">Alfred Lord Tennyson</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1809</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1892</tt></td> 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