Usher or Ussher, James. 1580–1656. Abp. Armagh. Chronologist. Author Chronological Tables of Universal Hist. from the Creation to Vespasian. The marginal dates in the authorized version of the Bible are from Usher. See Complete Works, 17 vols., Dublin, 1864. See Life, by Aikin.
Valpy, Abraham John. 1787–1854. Shakespearean editor. His illustrated Shakespeare, 15 vols., appeared in 1834.
Vanbrugh [văn´broo], Sir John. 1666–1726. Dramatist and architect. Author of a dozen brilliant but coarse comedies, among which The Relapse, Revoked Wife, The Confederacy, and Journey to London are the best.
Vaughan [vawn or vaw´ȃn], Chas. James. 1816 ——. Theologian. Author Heroes of Faith, Epistles of St. Paul for Eng. Readers, etc. A leader of Broad Church thought. Pub. Dut. Mac. Phi. Rou.
Vaughan, Henry. 1621–1695. Poet. His verse is religious in character, and is as frequently harsh in sound as quaint in form. Silex Scintillans is the title of his principal work. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2, MacDonald's England's Antiphon, and Dr. John Brown's Spare Hours, 1st Series. Pub. Hou.
Vaughan, Robert. 1795–1868. Miscellaneous writer. Author of Congregationalism, the Age of Great Cities, Revolutions in English Hist., etc.
Vaughan, Robert Alfred. 1823–1855. Son to R. V. Author Hours with the Mystics, etc. See Memoir by his father, 1858.
Vaux [vawks], Thomas, Lord. 1510–1557. Poet. Author of the Grave-digger's song in Hamlet and the meditative poem Thought.
Veitch, John. 1829 ——. Scotch philosophical writer. Author Memoirs of Dugald Stewart and Sir Wm. Hamilton, etc.