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William Congreve - Biography and Works (695 words) |
 | The Congreves moved back to Staffordshire, England around 1689 during the exodus of Protestants from Ireland. |
| Though never called to the bar in 1691 Congreve entered the Middle Temple to study law. |
| It was while writing poetry and working on translations that Congreve made his first entrance into London's literary world, publishing under the pseudonym "Cleophil" Incognita (1692), "an Essay". |
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Robert Boyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1432 words) |
| In the leisure thus gained he wished to "recruit his spirits, range his papers," and prepare some important chemical investigations which he proposed to leave "as a kind of Hermetic legacy to the studious disciples of that art," but of which he did not make known the nature. |
| His health became still worse in 1691, and his death occurred on December 30 of that year, just a week after that of the sister with whom he had lived for more than twenty years. |
| He was buried in the churchyard of St Martin's in the Fields, his funeral sermon being preached by his friend Bishop Burnet. |
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