A General Biographical Dictionary

This is a biographical dictionary, specifically Volume III of John Gorton's General Biographical Dictionary, a new edition published in London by Henry G. Bohn in 1851, supplemented to the present time. The volume contains alphabetically arranged biographical entries on historical figures from various periods and nations. Featured entries include Nadir Schah (Thamas Kouli Khan), the 18th-century Persian conqueror and usurper; the ancient Roman poet Naevius; Anthony Faustus Naironi, a Maronite scholar; Sebastiano Naldi, an Italian buffo singer; John and Valentine Nalson, English divines; Nicholas de Nancel, a physician and philologist; Guillaume de Nangis, a 14th-century French historian and Benedictine; Giovanni Battista Nani, a Venetian diplomat and historian; Peter Nanni, a Dutch critic and philologist; Robert Nanteuil, an eminent engraver; Louis Chazot de Nantigni, a genealogist; Thomas Naogeorgi, a Protestant divine; and John Napier (Neper), the Scottish mathematician credited with discovering logarithms.