John Dennis is known best, perhaps, as an example in Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism (1711) of what a critic ought not to be and as one of the diving contestants in The Dunciad (1728, 1743). But h...
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British soldier, politician, and charity worker (b. Jan. 30, 1915—d. March 9, 2006,
London, Eng.
), was the central character in one of the
U.K.
's most spectacular sex scandals of the 20th...
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John Dennis
Profumo, John Dennis
