Griffith, Arthur. 1872-1922. Founded Sinn Fein 1905. Irish President 1922.

Grimm, Wilhelm. 1786-1859, Jacob 1785-1863. German writers of fairy tales 1812, founders of the German philology.

Guinea. 1663-1817. English gold coin worth £1.05.

Guise, Henri, duc de. 1550-88. Partipated in St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Founded Catholic League 1576. Led revolt against Henry III. Murdered.

Gunther. -437. First King of Burgundy, defeated by Huns.

Hahnemann, Samuel. 1755-1843. German founder of homeopathy 1810.

Hall, G. Stanley. 1844-1924. US child psychologist. Founded American Journal of Psychology 1887.

Halley, Edmund. 1656-1742. English astronomer who explained comets 1705. First meteorological chart 1686.

Hamman, Johann. 1730-88. German Pietism founder.

Hanson, John. 1721-83. American revolutionary. US. ’president’ 1781-2 under Articles of Confederation.

Hardie, Keir. 1856-1915. British. Founded Scottish Labour Party 1888, Independent Labour Party 1893.

Harmony Society. Protestant celibate ascetic communal sect. Founded Harmony, PA 1806.

Harris, Paul. 1868-1947. US lawyer. Founded Rotary International 1905.

Harvard, John. 1607-38. Endowed University with £800 + 320 books.

Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.

Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.

Hengist and Horsa. 5C. Legendary Jute brothers, founded Kent. Fought Britons.

Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.

Henry VI. 1421-71. King of England and France 1422-61, 70-1. Founded King’s College Cambridge, Eton. Lost France except Calais. Weakness led to War of Roses. Deposed.

Hermes Trismegistus. Egyptian founder of alchemy. Passed secret only to the sons of Pharaoahs.

Herzl, Theodor. 1860-1904. Hungarian/Austrian writer. Founder of Zionism. The Jewish State 1896.

Hiawatha. 15C Onondaga chief, legendary founder of League of 5 nations. Longfellow.

Hillary, Sir Edmund. 1919-2008. New Zealand, first to climb Mt. Everest, 1953, with Tenzig Norgay.

Hillary, William. Founder of English Royal National Lifeboat Institute, 1824.

Hipparchus. c190-120BC. First star catalogue. Epicyclic planetary motion around earth. Astrolabe 130.

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