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| Urquhart, Sir Thomas |
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(both: ûr´k rt) (KEY) , 161160, Scottish translator and author. A royalist, he was knighted (1641) by Charles I and fought in the civil wars. He wrote treatises on mathematics and linguistics, but he is noted especially for his superb translation of three books (first two, 1653; third, 1693) of the Gargantua of Rabelais. |
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