STANLEY

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• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

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• STANLEY JOHN WEYMAN (1855— )

WEYMAN (1855— )  , English novelist, was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, on the 7th of August 1855, the son of a solicitor . He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and at Christ Church, Oxford . He took his degree in modern history in 1877, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1881, joining the Oxford circuit . He had been practising as a barrister for eight years when he made his reputation as a novelist by a series of romances dealing with French history: The House of the Wolf (1889), A Gentleman of France (1893), Under the Red Robe (1894), Memoirs of a Minister of France (1895), &c . Among his later novels were: Shrewsbury (1897), The Castle Inn (1898), Sophia (190o), Count Hannibal (1901), In King's Byways (1902), The Long Night (1903), The Abbess of Vlaye (1904), Starvecrow Farm (1905), Chippinge (1906) .