Augustine Birrell
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British politician (1850-1933)
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- 62
Top works
- Boswell's Life of Johnson; Volume 1
- Essays About Men Women and Books
- The Duties And Liabilities Of Trustees
- Men, Women and book
- Res Judicatae
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5 total works indexed
- Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
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- Quantum Fields in Curved Space
· 1982 · cited 4,642x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,394x
- Human Resource Systems and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Competency-Based Perspective
· 1994 · cited 3,772x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 2,970x
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Quotes
- “That great dust-heap called ‘history’.”
- “A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.”
- “It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.”
- “Great is bookishness and the charm of books.”
- “Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.”
- “Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.”
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- Augustine Birrell
- date of birth
- 1850-01-01
- date of death
- 1933-01-01
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- Augustine Birrell
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1850 births1933 deaths19th-century Scottish essayists19th-century Scottish politicians20th-century Scottish essayists20th-century Scottish memoirists20th-century Scottish politiciansAlumni of Trinity Hall, CambridgeBritish secretaries of state for educationChief secretaries for IrelandContributors to the Dictionary of National BiographyEnglish barristersLawyers from LiverpoolLiberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituenciesMembers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fife constituenciesMembers of the Privy Council of IrelandMembers of the Privy Council of the United KingdomPeople educated at Amersham HallPeople of the Easter RisingPoliticians from LiverpoolPresidents of the Liberal Party (UK)Rectors of the University of GlasgowScottish Liberal Party MPsUK MPs 1886–1892