biography
| name: |
Urquhart, Sir Thomas
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pronunciation:
[erkert]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1611–60)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Cromarty, Highland, N Scotland, UK. He studied at King's College, Aberdeen, and took up arms against the Covenanting party in the N, but was defeated and forced to flee to England. Becoming attached to the court, he was knighted in 1641. He was present at the Battle at Worcester (1651), where he was taken prisoner and put in the Tower. Through Cromwell's influence, he was allowed considerable liberty, and in 1652 he published his Pantochronochanon, an exact account of the Urquhart family, in which they are traced back to Adam. In 1653 he issued his Introduction to the Universal Language and the first two books of The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais, a brilliant translation and an English classic. |
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