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Show dill" FlTSit" "Nisi Ttll ItS rigin and the Famous Folk Who tllllV' Have Borne It Copyright 1910, By Francos Marshall. iOUS MAESHALL. politicians, explorers, icians, physicians, ;S the great Richards .e gained lame.. ot 1 a loner one. it is t ho imous as inventors who amped the r impress on mdern world. n.ndc possible great, t" another constructed "nVi,io which muled the carried In; steam; still d the modern printing "r invented the Catling Jed put warfare on its ISWricht, born in 132 5., as soon ns he was old Sri' 'iDprcntieed to a bur-K0 bur-K0 a man to be cast down ffid not have the oppor-fhc oppor-fhc dreamed of. When he Imc a traveling salesman 5 RDd as ho had found a i of dyeing hair ho made fihe had been interested in inncrs nbut him' an1 was A better tbeir methods ol hired a watchmaker named h:e of the mechanical cud fand set about devising a miih would spin thread and Kj76S turned out the first Illras so poor tnai wnon uiu y n local election he had to k'of clothes in order to cast Ftris so hated by the hand feared that his niachihe iVay their means of living, jo move away. But in spite Us went on with his inven-ife inven-ife often from four in the B nine at night. Tn 17GD ha St mill, run by horse- power, ("died he was in possession inane. t ttvithick. born in Cornwall, t EICHAED a t ERIO 1 t TvF0ufr Tnvetntors of the . Name T ?.hP,.IIa.V0 helped Mold Modern T viIi7.Rtion The Great Richards v ot the Sea and Their Adventures 7 A Group ot Famous Writing Rich- t tt1rds77Tho 01(3 -Feminine Forms of y the XV nine, and Some of Their Fa- y mpus Bearers Ricciardn, Belovod y ot the. Scholar Cino Nnmos of y Ivingship. .j. England, in 171. went, to work ns an engineer en-gineer in his lather's mines. It is said that he was not over-fond of schooling, and used toplay truant. Nevertheless, once he confounded his schoolmaster by offering to do six sui;:s to the master's one. lie was Strong and muscular, six-feet six-feet two in height, had broad shoulders, a massive head and deep blue eyes. ircvithick was always experimenting with machinery. The newlv-invcnted steam engine interested him greatly, and alter making many small models, he perfected, per-fected, on Christmas eve, in the year It h a sized vohiclo, run by steam, the nrst to carry passengers. This was so, successful Mat Trevithick and a friend in 1S04 built a locomotive engine Captain Dick's Puffer, it was called to run on a regular railroad. Richard Hoe and Richard Gatling 7eiS Amer,can born. Hoe was born in - " -"".u yj. a i.wiuiy tumCU DOIOrC and since because of its prominence in printing press improvements. In 181G Hoe s lightning press, a rotarv press, was brought out, but later ho invented a still nvoro complicated piece of machinery machin-ery the web perfecting press, which prints on both sides of the paper aud cuts and folds it all in one. Gatling, born six years later than Hoe, was the son or an inventor. He took a degree in medicine, but never practiced for ho prererred to devote all his time to invention. in-vention. His best known production is the revolving gun called by his name. -Less important to the modern world, perhaps, but not less interesting, are the lives ol the great Richards of the- sea. J he first of them was not a Richard at an, but Richard's Scandinavian cousin, -brie. I-or it is Eric the Red, bravo Norwegian Nor-wegian outlaw, who crossed the stormy seas and made the first white settlement in Greenland, about OSo. Almost six centuries later lived Richard Rich-ard Chancellor, an English navigator, who started out with Sir Hti"h Wil lough by to seek a northwest passage to India. In the White Sea Chancellor was separated from his companions. sothing daunted, he made his way over- ll to .Moscow, and t here obtained valuable val-uable tide concessions from Russia for England. Sir Richard Hawkins, born in 1562, the only son of Sir John Hawkins, started when he was thirty-one to go Unli, where ho besieged and captured Valparaiso. Then in 1594, almost exactly exact-ly a year after ho had left England, he was made prisoner bv the Spanish. When, in 1602, he was ransomed and returned re-turned froe fo England, ho was much praised and feted, was knighted, made a member of parliament, and finally was appointed vice-admiral of Devon. Richard. Earl Howe, commanded the British fleet on the Atlantic coast in the .Revolutionary war. Like Hawkins, ho stnrted around the world, and, like, Hawkins, was a popular hero. His fame rests on the victorv known ns i " the glorious first of June,'" in the war with France, when, on his flagship, tho Queen Charlotte, he commanded the British fleet of twenty-five ships. In honor of the day London was illuminated illumi-nated for threo nights, and the king made Howe a Knight of tho Garter. Richard Kcmponfelt, British roar admiral, ad-miral, who in 1782 sank with his flagship, flag-ship, the Ko3'aI George, which broke up and went down while being repaired, and Richard Hobson, hero of the Mcrri-mac, Mcrri-mac, belong in this list. Three kings of the name, the first called the Lion Hearted, or Cocur do Lion, king in 1189. who made a trip to the Holy Land, and the last one of the most haled kings that ever lived, who fell at Boswonh Field, the battle which ended tile Wars of tho Roses, ruled in England. Fourteen Erics were kings of Sweden before that country's union with Denmark, in 1397. The best loved of them was Saint Eric, king iu 1150, who Christianized uppor Sweden. Richard. Hooker, born in 1553, whose "Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity" is to this day considered tho greatest work on the constitution of tho Church of England; Sir Richard Steele, born in 1672, who founded the Taller; Richard Brinslcy Sheridan, brilliant author of "The Rivals" and other popular dramas, who diod in 1816; Richard Bar-ham, Bar-ham, English elcrg3-man, born in 17SS, who wrote the "Ingoldsby Legends"; Richard Blackmore, horn in 1825, author of " Lorna Doone"; Richard Watson Gilder, American born in IS-M, famous ns editor and poet, and Richard Harding Davis, .iournalist and stor' writer, represent rep-resent the name among men of letters. Dick Whittiugtou. famous lord rnavor of London, who died in 1120; Richard Grafton, who in 1549 printed the first Book of Common Prayer in England; Richard Burbage, actor in Elizabeth's reign and friend of Shakespeare's; Richard Cromwell, who succeeded bis father, Olivor, as Lord Protector of England; Richard Brock-lesby, Brock-lesby, famous eighteenth century physician physi-cian to whom Dr. Johnson offered a hundred pounds a year for health; Richard Henry Leo, famous southern statesman, who in 1774 was a member of the Continental congress; Richard Marquis of Wcllesley, elder brother of Prm?,l!kc . e'liH,CtO". who. as gov-CMor-gcncral of Jnd a n 1706. greatlv strongtlienod JS,,KIish power' Col)(,?u English economist and statesman who in 1S16 succeeded in getting tho tax on corn removed, and honce saved, thousands of Englishmen from starvation; Richard Olney, born in lpjo, attorney-general and sccretarv of slate under President Cleveland; Rich- ?.r ii Hr 1?r. ;e:irs chicf ot Tammany hall; Richard Mansfield, famous actor horn in Germany in 1S57, and Richard traus, German born, in 1S64, one of tnc most advanced of modem composers and musicians these are Bomo of the other famous Richards. Richard is of Teutonic derivation, and means stern king. Eric means "king forever " Dick aud Ritchio are variations varia-tions oi. Richard. There are. several feminine forms of tho name which used to be popular. A bearer of ono of these names was the Lmpress Richarde, daughter of a Scotch king. She married, in S77, Charles the I at, King of France, and was beloved tor her1 beauty and wisdom. But the king divorced her unjustl', and in sorrow sor-row and grief the empress-queen retired to a monastery sho had built and endowed, en-dowed, and there she lived out hor life. Richcnza was tho name of tho wifo of Lothair JTI. of Germany, who died in 1137, and Richenza was tho grandmother grand-mother of Henry the Lion, Duko of Saxony, who helped secure his throne to him. Another woman of the name was Ricciarda Sclvaggia, tho belovod of tho fourteenth century scholar, Cino. Her parents did not look with favor upon the young scholar's suit. But after her father's banishment, when he, with his family, sought refuge in a cave in tho Appouinos, Cino, who came to comfort them, was welcomed joyfully. joy-fully. The privations bIic had been through had weakened Ricciarda, and before she and Cino could be married sho died. She was buried in tho little cave, and years later, when fame and worldly honors had been showered upon Cino, ho mado .n, pilgrimago to her grave. She is spoken of with tho throo other famous womon who were tho in spiration ot four of the greatest mon of the fourteenth century Dante's Beatrice, Boccaccio's Fiammetta, and Petrarch's Laura. Miss Marshall will bo pleased to answer an-swer by mail all inouirics auurcasod to her concerning tho origin and hiBloiy of first names. In addressing Miss Marshall Mar-shall in care of this paper, plcaso en- I closo a stamped and 'self-addressed envelope for the reply. |