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Rich

Rich, a N. E. county of Utah, bordering on Idaho and Wyoming, and intersected by Bear river; area, about 850 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 1,955. The E. part is mountainous. It is generally well timbered, and adapted to the raising of grain, stock, and vegetables. The chief productions in 1870 were 3,782 bushels of wheat, 6,175 of oats, 2,530 of barley, 4,660 of potatoes, and 775 tons of hay. The value of live stock was $26,015. Capital, St. Charles.

Richard Bache

Richard Bache, a merchant of Philadelphia, born in England in 1737, died in Berks county, Penn., July 29, 1811. He came to America in early life, and married in 1767 the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin. At the beginning of the revolution he was president of the republican society of Philadelphia, and from 1776 to 1782 he was postmaster general of the United States.

Richard Boyle Burlington

Richard Boyle Burlington, earl of, an English architect, born April 25, 1695, died in 1753. He studied architecture in Italy, but had no admiration for the Gothic. The works of Inigo Jones and of Palladio won his admiration, and on the principle which these exhibited he erected many buildings, of which the best known are his own villas at Cheswick and at Lanesborough in Yorkshire, the front of Burlington house (purchased by government for scientific societies, &c), the dormitory at Westminster school, mansions for several noblemen, his friends, the reparation of St. Paul's church, Covent Garden (by Inigo Jones), and the assembly room at York, which is his best work. He was the friend of Pope, who eulogized him in his "Fourth Epistle".

Richard Bright

Richard Bright, an English physician, born at Bristol in 1789, died Dec. 15, 1858. He took his medical degree at the university of Edinburgh in 1812, and afterward settled in London, where he practised with great success, and became licentiate of the royal college of physicians, and physician to Guy's hospital. He sought especially to trace the connection between morbid symptoms and alterations in structure of the internal organs; and in this way he discovered that the dropsical effusions and albuminous condition of the urine, present in the disease which bears his name, were dependent on a peculiar degeneration of the substance of the kidney. He wrote on morbid anatomy, on diseases of the brain, on abdominal tumors, and other similar subjects. His publications illustrating disease of the kidney appeared in 1836, 1839, and 1840.

Richard Brome

Richard Brome, an English dramatist, died in 1652. He was originally a servant to Ben Jonson. The "Northern Lass," the first of 15 comedies which he wrote, obtained Jonson's commendation. Brome joined with Thomas Hey wood in writing the " Lancashire Witches" and two other plays. Soon after his death his plays were collected and published by Alexander Brome (born 1620, died 1666), who, though a namesake, was no relation, and wrote satirical songs and epigrams on the loyalist side during the protectorate, as well as a comedy and a translation of Horace.