THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN Characters - Alphabetical

FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION Dr. Abbott Employed at an Army divisonal hospital in Alexandria. Joseph Addison An English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. Herbert Henry Asquith Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Francis Bacon An English philosopher and statesman. Francis Bacon Served as Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor of England. Nathan Bailey An English philologist and lexicographer. Dr. Baker One of the doctors who assisted Dr. Minor. Alexander Graham Bell A man who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Alexander Melville Bell A teacher and researcher. Alexander Graham Bell's father. Thomas Blount Former U.S. Representative. Napoleon Bonaparte A French statesman and military leader. Henry Bradley The editor-in-chief of now known as the Oxford English Dictionary. Doctor Brayn A martinet. He replaced the position of Dr. Nicholson. Charlotte Brontë An English novelist and poet. Francis Browne A distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. Henry Austin Bruce 1st Baron Aberdare, was a British Liberal Party politician. Robert Burchfield A lexicographer, scholar, and writer. Edmund Burke An Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Henry Burton One of the policemen. Richard Burton A Welsh actor. Robert Cawdrey An English clergyman. William Caxton The first person to introduce a printing press into England. Geoffrey Chaucer An English poet and author. Hayden Church A journalist. Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Henry Cockeram An English lexicographer. Herbert Coleridge The first editor of Oxford English Dictionary. Mrs. Cooper Thomas Cooper's wife. Thomas Cooper An American economist. George Curzon Former Viceroy of India. Theodore d' Aubigné A French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. Richard Dadd An English painter of the Victorian era. James Dana An American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. Dr. Davidian A psychiatrist. Jefferson Davis Former President of the Confederate States. Fernão de Castanheda A Portuguese historian. Daniel Defoe An English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. Frederick Delius A Yorkshire-born composer. William Dennis Employed at London Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane. Charles Dickens An English writer and social critic. Charles L. Dodgson An English writer. Pen name is Lewis Carroll. John Donne An English poet, scholar, and soldier. Gustavo Dore An illustrator. Francis Drake An English naval officer. John Dryden An English poet, literary critic,translator, and playwright. Jacques du Boscq The author of The Accomplish'd Woman. Dr. Duval A doctor who approved for Dr. Minor's released from the hospital. Alexander Ellis A Trinity College, Cambridge mathematician. Frederick T. Elworthy An English philologist and antiquary. Thomas Elyot An English diplomat and scholar. Guy Fawkes A member of a group of provincial English Catholics. Mrs. Fisher William Minor's landlady. Henry Fowler An English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator. Martin Frobisher An English seaman and privateer. Frederick Furnivall The secretary of the Philological Society. Henry Hucks Gibbs 1st Baron Aldenham, was a British banker and businessman. William Ewart Gladstone Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Theodor Goldstiicker A professor of Sanskrit at University College London. Kenneth Grahame A British writer. Ulysses S. Grant 18th U.S. President. Jonathon Green An English lexicographer of slang and writer. Fitzedward Hall An American Orientalist, and philologist. G. Morris Haller William Minor's friend. Rex Harrison An English actor of stage and screen.   Hartfield A hospital attendant. Uriah Heep An English rock band. Thomas Herbert 1st Baronet, was an English traveller and historian. John Hinckley American criminal who attempted to assassinate Pres. Reagan. Coleman Hughes An American writer. Thomas Huxley An English biologist and anthropologist. Joshua Jebb A Royal Engineer and British Surveyor-General of convict prisons. Samuel Johnson An English writer. Ben Jonson An English playwright and poet. Franciscus Junius An art historian. Charles Kingsley A University professor. Elizabeth Knowles An experienced lexicographer and quotation dictionary compiler. Emil Kraepelin A German psychiatrist. Martin Kuster One of William Minor's patient. Robert E. Lee American-Confederate general. Henry Liddell Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President. Henry W. Longfellow An American poet and educator. Thomas B. Macaulay Former British Secretary at War. Gervase Markham An English poet and writer. Christopher Marlowe An English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Russell Martineau An Hebraist and librarian. Henry Louis Mencken American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar. George Merrett A stoker at the Red Lion Brewery. Max Miller An English comedian. John Milton An English poet. Eastman Strong Minor William Minor's father. Edward Minor William Minor's nephew. George Minor William Minor's stepbrother. Lucy Bailey Minor William Minor's mother. Thomas Minor An early colonial New England diarist. Thomas T. Minor Eastman and Judith Taylor Minor's son. William Minor A former army surgeon. Lucy Minor 2 William Minor's sister. William Morris A British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and activist. James Murray A Scottish lexicographer and philologist. K.M.Elisabeth Murray An English biographer and educationist. Thomas Nashe An Elizabethan playwright, poet, and a significant pamphleteer. Charles Nichols The superintendent of the government hospital for the insane. Dr. Nicholson Dr. Minor's friend. Dr. Noott One of the doctors who assisted Dr. Minor. William Orange King of England. Edwin H. Palmer A theologian, scholar, teacher, and pastor. Grace Palmer Thomas Minor's wife. Robert Peel Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Philippe Pinel A French physician. Alexander Pope One of the greatest English poet. Ezra Pound An expatriate American poet and critic. Walter Raleigh An English writer, poet, soldier, politician, spy and explorer. Ronald Reagan 40th U.S. President. Joshua Reynolds An English painter. Cardinal Richelieu Former Chief minister of France. John Ruskin The leading English art critic of the Victorian era. Ada Ruthven James Murray's second wife. Dorothy L. Sayers An English crime writer and poet. Maggie Scott A music teacher. James Murray's wife. Robert Scott A Royal Navy officer and explorer. James Sewell The warden of a New College. William Shakespeare An English playwright, poet, and actor. G. Bernard Shaw An Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Philip Sidney An English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier. Rev. B.W. Smith A musical artist. Tobias Smollett A Scottish poet and author. Edmund Spenser An English poet. Philip Dorme Stanhope A British statesman, diplomat, man of letters as Lord Chesterfield. William Stubbs An English historian and Anglican bishop. Henry Sweet A phonetician. Jonathan Swift An Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet. Henry Tarrant A young police constable. Judith M. Taylor Eastman Minor 2nd wife. Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson was a British poet. Richard Trench Anglican archbishop and poet. Andrew Ure A Scottish physician, founder of the Andersonian Institution. Alexander von Humboldt A German polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer. Horace Walpole An English writer, art historian, man of letters. Izaak Walton An English writer. William Ward One of the policemen. John Webster An English Jacobean dramatist.   Williamson A Scotland Yard detective. Thomas Wilson An American actor, writer, artist, musician and podcaster. Justin Winsor An American writer, librarian, and historian. John Withals English lexicographer. Alfred 1   William Minor's uncle. Alfred 2   William Minor's brother. Alice   Henry Liddell's daughter. Anna   James and Maggie Murray's daughter. Boer   A former prisoner of wars. Clare   George and Eliza's daughter. Edward I   King of England. Eliza   George Merrett's wife. Elizabeth   James Murray's granddaughter. Frederick   George and Eliza's son. aka: Freddy. George Jr.   Eliza and George Merrett's son. George V   Former King of the United Kingdom. Hazlett   A musical artist. Mary   James Murray's mother. Philip   Lord Chesterfield's son. Queen Victoria   Former Queen of the United Kingdom. Thomas   James Murray's father. Voltaire   A French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.