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Not-too-prosperous Father: RICARDp, ri-kar'do, David, English political economist: b. London, April 19, 1772; d. Gatcombe Park, Gloucestershire, Sept. 11, 1823. His father was a prosperous Jew, born in the Netherlands, but settled in England in his youth; he was a member of the Stock Exchange. The son was educated in England and later in the Netherlands, but had no university training and entered his father's business at 14. He married early and conformed to the Christian religion, whereupon an alienation with his father necessitated his taking up business on his own account.
GOSCHEN, go'shan, George Joachim (1831-1907), British political leader. He was born at Stoke Newington on Aug. 10, 1831, the son of a prosperous German emigre. Educated at Rugby and Oxford, he entered his father's London bank and became, at 27, a director of the Bank of England.
REYMONT, ra'mont, Wladyslaw Stanis-law, Polish novelist: b. Kobiek Wielkie, then in Russian Poland, May 6, 1868; d. Warsaw, Dec. 5, 1925. He was one of a large family of children, dominated by a stern and not-too-prosperous father. His early life was a r-ecord of brief unsuccessful attempts to find himself. He failed to pass the entrance examinations for a seco school in Lodz, was apprenticed to a tailor, ; a traveling theatrical company, became a i in a monastery, and obtained a supervisor) on a railroad.
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