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Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2] Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
Robert Williams was a Welsh poet who wrote most of his poems about agriculture and nature. Roberts was born at Pandy Isaf, Tre Rhiwedog, Bala, but little else is known about his life. [1] He learned bardic conventions from the well-known teacher Rolant Huw (1714-1802), [2] and himself taught the better known Ioan Tegid (John Jones, 1792-1852 ...
He was the son of Robert Buchanan (1813–1866), Owenite lecturer and journalist, [7] and was born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, England.Buchanan senior, a native of Ayr, Scotland, lived for some years in Manchester, then moved to Glasgow, where Buchanan junior was educated, at the high school and the university, [8] one of his fellow-students being the poet David Gray.
Robert Williams (actor, born 1894) (1894–1931), American stage and film actor; Robert B. Williams (actor) (1904–1978), American film actor; Robert Guillaume (1927–2017), American film actor whose birth name is Robert Williams; R. J. Williams (born 1978), American former child actor and later internet entrepreneur
Robert Horan (August 9, 1922 – September 19, 1981) [1] [2] was an American poet. ... His work appeared in Harper's, [11] Poetry, [12] and Kenyon Review. Awards
William Burnes or William Burness (11 November 1721 – 13 February 1784) was the father of the poet Robert Burns.He was born at either Upper Kinmonth [1] or Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle, Aberdeenshire, before moving to Ayrshire and becoming a tenant farmer.
Robert William Geoffrey Gray (born 23 February 1945) is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic. He has been described as "an Imagist without a rival in the English-speaking world" and "one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English".
Spencer was born in Kensington Palace on 9 January 1769. He was the younger son of Lord Charles Spencer and his wife Mary Beauclerk.His eldest brother, Robert Spencer, married Henrietta Fawkener (daughter of Sir Everard Fawkener) and his other brother, John Spencer, married their cousin, Lady Elizabeth Spencer (daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough).