Authors, Historians, Poets
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Alexander Henderson (1583-1646) Scottish theologian, one time minister at Leuchars and important ecclesiastical statesman of his period
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Bathsua Reginald Makin (c1600-c1675) teacher who was referred to as England’s most learned lady and argued primarily for the equal right of women and girls to obtain an education
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and also a successful novelist
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Edmund Burke MP (1730-1797) Irish author, orator and political theorist
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George Crabbe (1754-1832) English poet, surgeon and clergyman and author of the narrative poem Peter Grimes
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John Howson (c1557-1632) English academic and bishop
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Robert Burns (1759-1796) Poet
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Robert Burns after the chalk portrait by Archibald Skirving
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Robert Burns Scottish Poet (1759-1796)
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Sir John Harington (1560-1612) English courtier, author and translator
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Sir John Harington (1560-1612) English courtier, author and translator
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Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Renaissance humanist and councillor to Henry VIII
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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer
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Thomas Hill (born c1528-1574) English astrologer, author and translator
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Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509-1556) English poet and diplomat
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A Few of the F.S.A’s – The Antiquaries
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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, born in the City of London
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Abraham Darcie (fl. 1623–1635) author and translator
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American statesman, lawyer and 16th president of the United States – engraving based on the famous Brady photograph taken in New York February 27, 1860
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Ada Byron, later Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) mathematician, writer and daughter of Lord Byron
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Adam Clarke (c1760-1832) British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist, philosopher, author and moral philosopher
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist, philosopher, author and moral philosopher
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Alaric Alexander Watts (1797-1864) British poet, journalist and conservative writer whose life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing
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Alexander Adam LLD (1741–1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer
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Alexander Brodie (1617-1680)
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Alexander Cruden MA (1699–1770) Scottish author and publisher
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 18th-century English poet and translator of Homer
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 18th-century English poet and translator of Homer
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer
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Alfred Guillaume Gabriel Grimod d’Orsay, comte d’Orsay (1801-1852) French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion
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Allan Cunningham (1784-1842) Scottish poet and author of ‘Lives of Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects’. He also brought out an edition of poems by Robert Burns
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Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian, wig-maker father of the portrait painter Allan Ramsay
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Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) French writer, poet and politician
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Andrew Boorde (c1490-1549) English traveller, physician and writer
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Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716) Scottish writer and politician
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Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655–1716) Scottish writer and politician
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Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who was a colleague and friend of John Milton during the Commonwealth period
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Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881) Irish novelist who often published as “Mrs. S. C. Hall” and married Samuel Carter Hall, a writer on art, who described her in Retrospect of a Long Life, from 1815 to 1883
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Anna Maria Porter (1780-1832) Scottish poet and novelist
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) French economist and statesman
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Beilby Porteus (1731-1809) Bishop of London and leading abolitionist in England
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637) English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637) English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and also a successful novelist
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and also a successful novelist
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and also a successful novelist
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) a Founding Father of the United States, scientist, statesman and diplomat
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) a Founding Father of the United States, scientist, statesman and diplomat
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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (née Sheridan 1808-1877) English social reformer and author active in the early and mid-nineteenth century
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Charles Cotton (1630-1687) English poet and writer
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer and social critic who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
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Charles James Mathews (1803-1878) English actor, playwright and theatre manager
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Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, poet, and antiquarian
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Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) Prince of Talleyrand, was a laicized French bishop, politician, and diplomat
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) Prince of Talleyrand, was a laicized French bishop, politician, and diplomat
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Charles Molloy Westmacott (1788-1868) British journalist and author, editor of The Age, the leading Sunday newspaper of the early 1830s
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Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715) English poet and statesman who was rewarded in 1694 for having devised the establishment of the Bank of England
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