Barrett, Rosa (Mary)
(1854–1936) philanthropist, child-care worker, and suffragist, was born 15 January 1854 in Royston, Hertfordshire, England, daughter of the Rev. W. G. Barrett and Martha Barrett (née Fletcher). From the 1860s she was resident with her family in Dublin. Her…...
Heitler, Walter
(1904–81), theoretical physicist and philosopher, was born 2 January 1904 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, son of Adolf Heitler, a Jewish engineering professor, and Ottilie Heitler (née Rudolf ). His largely classical early education left him with a lifelong interest…...
Hennig, Paul Gottfried Johannes (John) (1911–86), scholar and businessman, was born 3 March 1911 in Leipzig, Germany, fourth of five children of Fürchtegott Max Hennig, protestant theologian and teacher, and his wife Berta Johanna (neé Clemen) who was from a family of distinguished…...
Toland, John (1670–1722), freethinker and
polemical writer, was
probably born in Inishowen, Co. Donegal, on 30 November 1670. Reputed to be the
illegitimate son of a catholic priest, Toland may have been baptised ‘Joannes
Eugenius’, which he later altered to a pen name, ‘Janus…...
