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  • Canaan
Biblical figure, patriarch of the Israelites, son of Isaac and Rebecca.
  • s. xx–xxi
Welsh scholar and poet.
British officer, surveyor and director-general of the Ordnance Survey.

James (M. R.) See: Montague Rhodes James

  • d. 12 June 1936
Also known as Rosaleen James, Nora O'Mara, Roisin O'Mara, Róisín Ni Mhéara and Róisín Ni Mhéara-Vinard.
  • s. xx–xxi
  • s. xx–xxi
  • s. xx–xxi
In the book of Genesis, one of the three sons of Noah. In Isidore’s Etymologiae, he is regarded as the ancestor of European peoples, an idea which proved seminal in subsequent tradition.
  • s. xx–xxi
  • s. xx–xxi
Dutch scholar, historian and keeper of manuscripts at Utrecht University.
  • s. xx–xxi