[À'Becket, A. W.], son of the preceding, a littérateur and journalist; b. 1844.
[Abel], the second son of Adam and Eve; slain by his brother. The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouvé.
[Abel, Sir F. A.], a chemist who has made a special study of explosives; b. 1827.
[Abel, Henry], an able Norwegian mathematician, who died young (1802-1828).
[Ab`elard, Peter], a theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his dialectic ability, his learning, his passion for Héloïse, and his misfortunes; made conceivability the test of credibility, and was a great teacher in his day (1079-1142).
[Abelli], a Dominican monk, the confessor of Catharine de Medici (1603-1691).
[Abencerra`ges], a powerful Moorish tribe in Grenada, whose fate in the 15th century has been the subject of interesting romance.
[Aben-Ez`ra], a learned Spanish Jew and commentator on the Hebrew scriptures (1090-1168).
[Abera`von] (6), a town and seaport in Glamorganshire, with copper and iron works.
[Abercrombie, Sir Ralph], a distinguished British general of Scottish birth, who fell in Egypt after defeating the French at Aboukir Bay (1731-1801).