Richard Burleigh Kimball

Richard Burleigh Kimball, an American author, born at Plainfield, N. H., Oct. 11, 1816. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1834, studied law, and after visiting Europe, and spending some time at the continental universities, he entered upon the practice of law, first at Waterford, N. Y., and then in New York city. His works, besides lectures, pamphlets, and contributions to periodicals, are: "St. Leger, or the Threads of Life" (New York and London, 1849); " Letters from England;" "Letters from Cuba" (New York, 1850);

" Cuba and the Cubans " (1850); " Romance of Student Life abroad " (1853); "Under-currents of Wall Street" (1862); "Was He Successful? " (1863); " In the Tropics " (1863); " The Prince of Vashna" (1865); "Henry Powers, Banker " (1868); and " To-day " (1869).

Richard Channing Moore

Richard Channing Moore, an American bishop, born in New York, Aug. 21, 1762, died in Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 11, 1841. He was educated in Columbia college, and studied medicine, but in July, 1787, was ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop Provoost of New York, being the first Episcopal minister who received orders in that state. He was rector of a parish embracing the whole of Staten Island from 1789 to 1809, and afterward of St. Stephen's church, New York. In 1814 he was elected to succeed Bishop Madison as bishop of Virginia, and was till his death also rector of the Monumental church in Richmond. The prosperity of the church in the diocese was greatly increased by his unremitting efforts. He was a prominent leader of the evangelical branch of the church. In 1829 Bishop Meade was appointed his assistant.

Richard Chenevix

Richard Chenevix, an Irish author and chemist, of French descent, born in 1774, died in Paris in April, 1830. Among his publications are "The Mantuan Rivals," a comedy, "Henry VII.," a historical tragedy, and an "Essay on National Character." He is chiefly known, however, as a writer on chemistry. His most important works are "Remarks on Chemical Nomenclature according to the System of the French Neologists" (1802), and "Observations on Mineralogical Systems," which first appeared in a French translation in the Annates de Chimie.

Richard Corbet

Richard Corbet, an English poet and divine, born at Ewell, Surrey, in 1582, died in 1635. He was educated at Westminster school and at Christchurch college, Oxford, of which he became dean in 1620. He was much esteemed for his eccentric wit and generous spirit, was made chaplain to James I., bishop of Oxford in 1629, and of Norwich in 1632. His poems, written early in life, were published after his death under the title of Poetica Stromata (1647). -A fourth edition, with his life, was published in London in 1809.

Richard Cosway

Richard Cosway, an English painter, born at Tiverton in 1740, died July 4, 1821. He removed to London, where he painted miniatures, in the execution of which he had no rival among his contemporaries. His wife, Maria Hadfield, also an artist, and a woman of great accomplishments, contributed for years to the exhibitions of the royal academy.