Britain's ties with Saudi Arabia stem from the exploits of a dashing diplomat, Capt William Shakespear - an explorer and pioneering photographer. If he hadn't met an early death while photographing a ...
BARRY SULLIVAN, son of an Irish Catholic Waterloo soldier, was born in Birmingham, in 1821, and died in 1891. He was a great actor. He kept the Shakespear and the tradition of great acting alive in ...
JOHN Shakespear (1774-1858) — not William Shakespeare (1564-1616), mind you — was among the British lexicographers and orientalists who influenced the next generations of lexicographers of Urdu. In ...