. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. By itsterms Italy resigned her claims to aprotectorate over the country. ADDISON, CHRISTOPHER, Britishstatesman; born June 19, 1869, was edu-cated at Trinity College, and pursuedmedical studies at St. BartholomewsHospital. He became a lecturer on anat-omy, and wrote many works on medicalsubjects. In 1914 he became Parliamen-tary Secretary to the Board of Educa-tion, and in the Coalition Cabinet ofLloyd George was made Minister ofMunitions. Later, he was appointedminister
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. By itsterms Italy resigned her claims to aprotectorate over the country. ADDISON, CHRISTOPHER, Britishstatesman; born June 19, 1869, was edu-cated at Trinity College, and pursuedmedical studies at St. BartholomewsHospital. He became a lecturer on anat-omy, and wrote many works on medicalsubjects. In 1914 he became Parliamen-tary Secretary to the Board of Educa-tion, and in the Coalition Cabinet ofLloyd George was made Minister ofMunitions. Later, he was appointedminister in charge of reconstruction. ADDISON, JOSEPH, an English es-sayist, poet,and statesman; born at Mils-ton, May 1, 1672. In 1693. he began hisliterary career with a poetical address toDryden. Next year appeared his Ac-count of the Greatest English Poets, anda translation of the fourth book of theGeorgics. In 1697 he composed aLatin poem on the Peace of Ryswick,and this, with a poem, To the King, re-sulted in that, through Charles Montagu,Earl of Halifax, he obtained, in 1699, apension of £300, and spent four years in. JOSEPH ADDISON France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Hol-land, one of the results of his travelsbeing his Letter to Lord Campaign, a poem celebrating thevictory of Blenheim (1704), secured forhim a commissionship of excise. Electedto Parliament for Malmesbury, he kept He contributed largely to the Tatler,started by his friend Steele, in 1709; 41papers being wholly by Addison, and 34 by him and Steele conjointly. In March,1711, was founded the Spectator, 274numbers of which (those signed with oneof the letters CLIO), were the work ofAddison, As a light essayist, he hasno equal in English literature. Histragedy, Cato (1713), aroused suchvehement party enthusiasm that it keptthe stage 35 nights. In 1716 Addisonmarried the Dowager Countess of War-wick and in 1717 he was appointed Sec-retary of State, but resigned his post,owing to his failing health, in Marc
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