George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950)Irish playwright, critic, and propagandist. He accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925), but declined all other public honours.Shaw's parents were an ill-assorted impoverished Dublin ...
Henry Sweet
(1845–1912)A great phonetician and, after A. J. Ellis (1814–90) one of the founders of that study in England, educated at Heidelberg University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was ...
