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    Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. Born at Leeds...
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  • Procter is a surname, and may refer to Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), British poet, daughter of Bryan Procter Andrew Procter (cricketer) (born 1968)...
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    Nightingale school in Stockton, California. Procter has been in a relationship with musician Paul Bryan since 2008. On December 8, 2010, she gave birth...
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    falls to her husband on her death. Collins dedicated this novel to Bryan Procter, poet and Commissioner for Lunacy, and was inspired by the case of Louisa...
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  • Harriet Martineau wrote, in her biography of Bryan Procter, the following: "For many years Mr Procter held the lucrative but not very congenial appointment...
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  • in Blackwood's Magazine in 1818. Browning's friend and fellow poet Bryan Procter acknowledged basing his 1820 "Marcian Colonna" on this source, but added...
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  • years, beyond the core Lake Poets. These include their contemporaries Bryan Procter, Felicia Hemans, and Walter Scott, as well as the labouring-class and...
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    with new members joining the circle including Thomas Noon Talfourd and Bryan Procter. In 1820, they met a young girl named Emma Isola, who may have been...
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    Paul Bryan (born April 13, 1967) is an American music producer, arranger, songwriter, and bassist. Bryan produced four albums by singer-songwriter Aimee...
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    further poetical treatment. In 1819 appeared "The Death of Acis" by Bryan Procter, writing under the name of Barry Cornwall. A blank verse narrative with...
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    Reynolds, Charles Lamb, Henry Cary, Thomas de Quincey, Allan Cunningham, Bryan Procter, Serjeant Talfourd, Hartley Coleridge, the peasant-poet John Clare,...
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  • Whitmore Cornwall, Archdeacon of Cheltenham Barry Cornwall, pen name of Bryan Procter, English poet Charles Wolfran Cornwall, MP Claudia Maria Cornwall (born...
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    based his 1859 novel The Woman in White on this case, dedicating it to Bryan Procter, the Commissioner for Lunacy. A generation later, Rosina Bulwer Lytton...
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    conscious of the potential criticism. When sending a copy of the poem to Bryan Procter, Longfellow wrote: "I hope you will not reject it on account of the...
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  • Nancy Price (1880–1970, England) J. B. Priestley (1894–1984, England) Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874, England) Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868–1927...
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    Publishing, London, 1938. Charles Lamb; A Memoir, by Barry Cornwall aka Bryan Procter, Edward Moxon, London, 1866. Young Charles Lamb, by Winifred Courtney...
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  • Dana Sr., American poet, critic and lawyer (died 1879) November 21 – Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall), English poet (died 1874) December 16 – Mary Russell...
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  • Creole novelist and dramatist writing in French (born 1817) October 5 – Bryan Procter, English poet (born 1787) October 24 – Thomas Miller, English poet (born...
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    around Hunt at Hampstead. The Hunt Circle also included Hazlitt, Lamb, Bryan Procter, Benjamin Haydon, Charles Cowden Clarke, C. W. Dilke, Walter Coulson...
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  • England/Wales, p/nf/f) V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997, England, f/nf) Bryan Procter (1787–1874, England, p) Jaša Prodanović (1867–1948, Serbia/Yugoslavia...
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    station. Cobbe alerted the Commissioners in Lunacy, whose report by Bryan Procter led to her release in May 1848. Louisa then sued her brother, cousin...
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  • poet and academic Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomat Bryan Procter (1787–1874), English poet Sextus Propertius (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin...
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  • Mr. Clean (category Procter & Gamble brands)
    Mr. Clean (or Mr. Proper) is a brand name and mascot owned by Procter & Gamble. It was used for an all-purpose cleaner and later also for a melamine foam...
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  • the imagination of the spectator. Mirandola: A Tragedy. London: Bryan Waller Procter. 1821. A Sicilian story and Mirandola. Garland Pub. 1977. John Ford...
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  • (1664–1721, E) Pauline Prior-Pitt (living, S) Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864, E) Bryan Procter (1787–1874, E) Kevin Prufer (born 1969, US) J. H. Prynne...
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    Adelaide Anne Procter was born at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London, on 30 October 1825 to the poet Bryan Waller Procter and his wife...
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  • (died 1854) 4 November – Edmund Kean, actor (died 1833) 21 November – Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall), poet (died 1874) 22 November – Copley Fielding, watercolour...
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  • Turner, Medical (1845–1854) Henry Herbert Southey, Medical (1845–1848) Bryan Procter, Legal (1845–1860) Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Lay...
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  • – Francis E. Anstie, doctor and journalist (born 1833) 5 October – Bryan Procter, poet (born 1787) 24 October – Thomas Miller, poet (born 1807) 18 November...
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  • Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar Bryan Procter alias "Barry Cornwall" (1787–1874), English poet and Commissioner in...
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