Historical Portraits
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‘La Triste Heritiere’ (The Sad Heiress), Anne St John, Countess of Rochester (1614-1696) wife of Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (1612-1658)
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‘La Triste Heritiere’, Anne St John, Countess of Rochester (1614-1696) wife of Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (1612-1658)
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A Few of the F.S.A’s – The Antiquaries
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Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving
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Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) Dutch painter and printmaker, in etching and engraving, who painted mostly history subjects and landscapes
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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 Cowley (1618-1667) one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, born in the City of London
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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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Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675) was Dutch painter of the Flemish School
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Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822) was a French painter of great promise who died at the age of 25 of pneumonia
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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 de Coster (c1586-1643 in Antwerp) Flemish painter and a prominent member of the Antwerp Caravaggisti
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Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731-1804) British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown in 1797 and whose victory is considered one of the most significant actions in naval history
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Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731-1804) British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown in 1797 and whose victory is considered one of the most significant actions in naval history
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Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731-1804) British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown in 1797 and whose victory is considered one of the most significant actions in naval history
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Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) German artist working in Rome, who died at only thirty-two
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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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Adam van Noort (c1561-1641) Flemish painter, draughtsman and a teacher of Peter Paul Rubens
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Adelaide (1792-1849) Queen of William IV
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Adelaide Kemble (1815-1879) English opera singer and a member of the Kemble family of actors. She was the younger sister of Fanny Kemble, the famous actress and anti-slavery activist
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Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726-1814) an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
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Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726-1814) an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
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Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726-1814) an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
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Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (1725-1786) Royal Navy officer and politician who also served as First Lord of the Admiralty
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Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (1725-1786) Royal Navy officer and politician who also served as First Lord of the Admiralty
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Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (1725-1786) Royal Navy officer and politician who also served as First Lord of the Admiralty
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Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833) British naval officer who served in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars
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Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833) British naval officer who served in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars
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Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718-1792) best known for his commands in the American Revolutionary War
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Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718-1792) best known for his commands in the American Revolutionary War
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Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718-1792) best known for his commands in the American Revolutionary War
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Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) a British Royal Navy officer who was court-martialled for failing to prevent Minorca from falling to the French and executed by firing squad
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Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705-1781) Royal Navy officer who also served as First Lord of the Admiralty
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Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705-1781) Royal Navy officer who also served as First Lord of the Admiralty
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Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735-1823) Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
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Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735-1823) Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
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Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726-1799) British naval officer during the War of the Austrian Succession, The Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707) as a junior officer he saw action at the Battles of Solebay and Texel during the Third Anglo-Dutch War
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake (1656-1720) a Royal Navy officer and later a politician who, as a junior officer, saw action at the Battle of Texel during the Third Anglo-Dutch War
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake (1656-1720) Royal Navy officer and politician
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Admiral Robert Blake (1598-1657) important military commander of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century
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Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724-1816) Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War
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Admiral Sir Charles Saunders (c1715-1775) a Royal Navy officer who commanded HMS Gloucester and led her in action at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747
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Adriaen Brouwer (c 1605-1638) Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the 17th century
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Adriaen Brouwer (c 1605-1638) Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the 17th century
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Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women
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Adriaen van Stalbempt (1580–1662) Flemish painter and printmaker
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Adriaen van Stalbempt (1580–1662) Flemish painter and printmaker
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Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) a leading Dutch Golden Age painter, producing mainly landscapes
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Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c1453-1515) a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman who served as Governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515
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Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (1454-1494) commonly known by his nickname Poliziano was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance
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Agostino Carracci (1557-1602) Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher
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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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Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600-1674)
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Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600-1674)
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Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600-1674)
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Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910) eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, later crowned as King Edward VII in 1901
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Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910) eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, later crowned as King Edward VII in 1901
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Albertus Magnus (c1200-1280) also known as Saint Albert the Great, German Catholic Dominican friar, philosopher and bishop
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Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance
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Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1427–1502) the artist’s father aged 70
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Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and poet often referred to as the ‘Father of modern physiology’
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Alcaeus of Mytilene (c625-c580 BC) lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos
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Aldus Pius Manutius (c1449-1515) an Italian humanist, scholar, educator, and the founder of the Aldine Press whose enchiridia, small portable books, revolutionized personal reading
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Alessandro Bonvicino known as Il Moretto da Brescia (c1498-1554) Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked
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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c1445-1510) known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance
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Alethea Howard (nee Talbot), Countess of Arundel (1585-1654)
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Alethea Howard (nee Talbot), Countess of Arundel (1585-1654) wife of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
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Alexander Adam LLD (1741–1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer
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Alexander Briant, Jesuit priest executed in London in 1581
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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 Cunningham 5th Earl of Glencairn (1517-1574)
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Alexander Erskine (1598-1656) Plenipotentiary for Sweden
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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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Alexander Henderson (1583-1646) Scottish theologian, one time minister at Leuchars and important ecclesiastical statesman of his period
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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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Alexander Henderson (1583-1646) Scottish theologian, one time minister at Leuchars and important ecclesiastical statesman of his period
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Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582-1661) Scottish soldier and Lord General of the Army of the Covenanters
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Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582-1661) Scottish soldier and Lord General of the Army of the Covenanters
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Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582-1661) Scottish soldier and Lord General of the Army of the Covenanters
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Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582-1661) Scottish soldier and Lord General of the Army of the Covenanters
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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 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 the Great (356-323 BC) King of Macedon, by age thirty, had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer
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Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1844-1925) Princess of Wales then Queen consort of the United Kingdom as the wife of King Edward VII
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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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Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy (1602-1668) English Parliamentary military leader
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Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy (1602-1668) English Parliamentary military leader
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Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) English politician, republican political theorist and member of the middle part of the Long Parliament
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Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) English politician, republican political theorist and member of the middle part of the Long Parliament
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Ali Pasha (1740-1822) Governor of Ioannina
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Alicia Stewart (d1573)
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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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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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Ambroise Paré (c.1510 -1590) French barber surgeon who served four French kings and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology
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Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl of Warwick (c1530-1590) English nobleman, general and elder brother of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
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Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) English poet and politician
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Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) an Italian-born merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term “America” is derived
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Anacreon (c582-c485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems
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Andrea del Castagno (c1419-1457) Italian painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone
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Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism
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Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism
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Andrea del Verrocchio (c1435-1488) Italian painter, sculptor and goldsmith who was a master of an important workshop in Florence
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Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c1308-1368) better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence
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Andrea Doria, Prince of Melfi (1466-1560) a Genoese statesman, condottiero and admiral, playing a key role in the Republic of Genoa during his lifetime
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Andrea Mantegna (c1431-1506) Italian painter, a student of Roman archaeology and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini
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Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) influential Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice
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Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) influential Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice
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Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661) Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome
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Andrea Schiavone (c1510:15-1563) Italian Renaissance painter and etcher, born in Croatia, active mainly in the city of Venice
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Andrea Tafi (1213-1294) Italian artist, best known for his work on the mosaics of the Baptistery in Florence
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Andreas de Nole (1598-1638) Flemish sculptor born in Antwerp
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Andrew Bell (1726–1809) engraver and William Smellie (1740–1795) Printer
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Andrew Boorde (c1490-1549) English traveller, physician and writer
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Andrew Cant (1590–1663) Presbyterian minister and leader of the Scottish Covenanters
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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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Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko (1746 -1817) Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States
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André Dacier (1651-1722) French classical scholar and editor of texts
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Angelica Kaufmann RA (1741-1807) Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome
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Ann Bill (d.1621) wife of John Bill, printer to King James I of England
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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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Annabella Drummond, Queen of Robert III (1350?-1402)
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Anne (née de Vere), Lady Fairfax (1617-1665) the wife of Thomas Fairfax, commander-in-chief of the New Model Army
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Anne 2nd Daughter of Sir Walter Scott
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Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford (1615-1684) the wealthy wife of William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford and daughter of the notorious Frances Howard who was an accomplice to murder
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Anne Cunningham (1585-1647) Marchioness of Hamilton, wife of James Hamilton 2nd Marquess of Hamilton and 4th Earl of Arran (1589-1625)
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Anne Duchess of Albemarle (1619-1670) wife of General Monck
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Anne Hamilton (1639-1695) Countess of Southesk wife of Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk
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Anne Hamilton (1639-1695) Countess of Southesk wife of Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk
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Anne Hyde (1637-1671) Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of King James II
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Anne Hyde (1637-1671) Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of King James II
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Anne Hyde (1637-1671) Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of King James II
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Anne Hyde (1637-1671) Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of King James II
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Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1647-1720) French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics
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Anne of Austria (1601-1666) Habsburg archduchess, queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII and mother of Louis XIV
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Anne of Austria (1601-1666) Habsburg archduchess, queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII and mother of Louis XIV
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Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) queen of James VI
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Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) queen of James VI
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Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) wife of James VI
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Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) wife of James VI
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) French economist and statesman
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Anne Rutherford, mother of Sir Walter Scott
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Anne Scott (1651-1732) 1st Duchess of Buccleuch and also Duchess of Monmouth
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Anne Scott (1651-1732) 1st Duchess of Buccleuch and also Duchess of Monmouth
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Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1829-1888) wife of 3rd Duke of Sutherland
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Anne Temple (d. 1718) Maid of Honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza who became Lady Lyttleton as the second wife to Sir Charles Lyttleton (1628-1716)
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Anne Temple (d. 1718) Maid of Honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza who became Lady Lyttleton as the second wife to Sir Charles Lyttleton (1628-1716)
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Anne, Duke of Montmorency, Honorary Knight of the Garter (1493-1567) a French soldier, statesman and diplomat who became Marshal of France and Constable of France and served five kings.
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Annibale Caracci (1560-1609) Italian Baroque artist
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Annibale Caracci (1560-1609) Italian Baroque artist
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Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) Italian painter active in Bologna and later in Rome
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Anthonis Mor, also known as Anthony More (c1517-1577) Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe
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Anthonis Mor, also known as Anthony More (c1517-1577) Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683) English politician during the Interregnum and the reign of Charles II and a founder of the Whig party
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683) English politician during the Interregnum and the reign of Charles II and a founder of the Whig party
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683) English politician during the Interregnum and the reign of Charles II and a founder of the Whig party
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885) British politician, philanthropist and social reformer
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Anthony, Lord Denny (1501-1549)
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Antisthenes (c446-c366 BC) a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates who first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates
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Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton, comte (c1645-1719) Irish born soldier and writer most famous for ‘Mémoires du comte de Grammont’
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Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton, comte (c1645-1719) Irish born soldier and writer most famous for ‘Mémoires du comte de Gramont’
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Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton, comte (c1645-1719) Irish-born soldier and writer most famous for ‘Mémoires du comte de Grammont’
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Antoine Coypel (1661-1722) French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman
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Antoine III Agénor de Gramont, Duke of Gramont (1604-1678) French military commander and diplomat who served as Marshal of France from 1641, Viceroy of Navarre and Béarn, and Governor of Bayonne
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) French nobleman and chemist, central to the 18th-century chemical revolution who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and biology
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Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835) French painter of historical subjects who studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489-1534) the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio, known as Correggio (1489-1534) the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio, known as Correggio (1489-1534) the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance
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Antonio Canova (1757-1822) Italian Neoclassical sculptor
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Antonio de Tassis (1584-1651) Flemish soldier who later became a canon in Antwerp Cathedral
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo (1429:1433-1498) Italian painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance
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Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp
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Antonio Veneziano (c1369-c1419) Italian painter and student of Taddeo Gaddi worked mainly in Siena, Florence and Pisa
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Apollonius of Tyana (c3 BC-c97 AD) a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Anatolia whose biography was written by Philostratus
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Apuleius (c124-c170) a Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician who was from Madauros, Numidia , modern Algeria
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Archibald Armstrong (d1672) ‘Archee’ the King’s Jester
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, 10th Earl of Argyll (1658-1703) was a Scottish peer, the son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll (1607-1661) Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll (1607-1661) Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll (1607-1661) Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll (1607-1661) Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll (1607-1661) Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll (1607–1661)
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Aristippus of Cyrene (c435-c356 BC) a one time pupil of Socrates and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy
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Aristomachus of Soli, an ancient Greek who wrote on the culture of bees
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Aristophanes (c446-c386 BC) comic playwright of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy, eleven of whose forty plays survive virtually complete
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Aristotle (384-322 BC) a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece who was taught by Plato and was the founder of the Lyceum
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Arnold Houbraken (1660-1719) Dutch painter and writer, known mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters
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Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (1614-1686) Anglo-Irish royalist statesman who served as Lord Privy Seal between 1673 and 1682 for Charles II
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Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell (1608-1649) was an English politician and one of the chief Royalist leaders
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Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell (1608-1649) was an English politician and one of the chief Royalist leaders
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Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell (1608-1649) was an English politician and one of the chief Royalist leaders
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Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) barrister, journalist, actor, biographer, translator and playwright of Irish origin, raised and lived in London
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish soldier, Tory statesman and one of the leading military and political figures of his time, serving twice as Prime Minister
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish soldier, Tory statesman and one of the leading military and political figures of his time, serving twice as Prime Minister
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish soldier, Tory statesman and one of the leading military and political figures of his time, serving twice as Prime Minister
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) at the Battle of Waterloo June 18th 1815
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Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden (1739-1803) Anglo-Irish peer, politician and judge, who held office as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
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Atahualpa (c1502-1533) the last Inca Emperor before the Spanish conquest ended his reign
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Athanasius I of Alexandria (c296-373) was the 20th bishop of Alexandria, a Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism
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Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (1627-1703) a Royalist during the English Civil War
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August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819) German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) also known as St Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa
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Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 AD) Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin
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Barbara van Beck (1629-1668) entrepreneur and celebrity whose face and much of her body were covered with hair (hypertrichosis or Ambras syndrome). She appeared in London in 1655 and 1668
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Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (1640-1709), was an English mistress of King Charles II
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Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (1640-1709), was an English mistress of King Charles II
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Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879) British banker, politician and philanthropist
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Barthélemy d’Herbelot de Molainville (1625-1695) was a French Orientalist
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Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561-1613) German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian
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Bartolomeo Sacchi (1421-1481) known as Platina after his birthplace Piadena and commonly referred to in English as Bartolomeo Platina, was an Italian Renaissance humanist writer and gastronomist
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) Spanish Baroque painter
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Bartolommeo (or Baccio) Bandinelli, actually Bartolommeo Brandini (1493-1560) Renaissance Italian sculptor, draughtsman, and painter
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Basil Feilding (Fielding), 2nd Earl of Denbigh
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Basil Fielding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh (1608-1675)
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Basil Fielding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh (1608-1675)
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Basil Fielding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh (c.1608-1675)
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Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (330-379) was an East Roman bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor
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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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Bede (c672-735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles
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Beilby Porteus (1731-1809) Bishop of London and leading abolitionist in England
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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 “Ben” Jonson (1572-1637) English playwright and poet best known for his satirical plays
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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 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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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) a Founding Father of the United States, scientist, statesman and diplomat
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Benjamin Hewling (1663-1685), Executed executed at Lyme Regis for participation in Monmouth’s rebellion
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Benjamin Hewling, condemned to death by Judge Jeffreys
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Benjamin West, PRA (1738-1820) British-American artist who painted many famous historical scenes
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Benjamin “Ben” Jonson (1572-1637) English playwright and poet best known for his satirical plays
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Benozzo Gozzoli (c1421-1497) Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, best known for the Magi Chapel murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
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Benvenuto Tisi, or Il Garofalo (1481-1559) Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara
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Bernard van Orley (c1487-1541) versatile Flemish artist representative of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, equally active as a designer of tapestries
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Bindo Altoviti (1491-1557) Italian banker and patron of the arts, previously wrongly identified as Raphael
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Bishop Brian Duppa (1589-1662) chaplain to Charles I
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Bon Boullogne (1649-1717) French painter of mythological and religious scenes
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Bonifacio Veronese (1487-1553) Italian Renaissance painter who was active in the Venetian Republic
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Callisthenes of Olynthus (c360-327 BC) well-connected Greek historian in Macedon, who accompanied Alexander the Great during his Asiatic expedition
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Capt. Dalrymple and Miss MacDonald of Clanronald
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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) British explorer, navigator, cartographer
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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) British explorer, navigator, cartographer
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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) British explorer, navigator, cartographer
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Captain Thomas Coram (c1668-1751) philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital
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Captain Thomas James (1593–1635) Welsh navigator and explorer
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Captain William Bedloe (1650-1680)
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Cardinal David Beaton (1494-1546) Archbishop of St Andrews
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Cardinal David Beaton (c1494 -1546) Archbishop of St Andrews
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Cardinal David Beaton (c1494–1546) Archbishop of St Andrews
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Cardinal David Beaton (c1494–1546) Archbishop of St Andrews
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Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician who served as the chief minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV
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Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician who served as the chief minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV
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Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
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Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, (1585-1642)
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Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, (1585-642)
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Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, (1585-642)
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Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, (1585-642)
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) Lord Chancellor and cardinal of the Catholic Church
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) Lord Chancellor and cardinal of the Catholic Church
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) Lord Chancellor and cardinal of the Catholic Church
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) Lord Chancellor and cardinal of the Catholic Church
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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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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature
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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic
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Carle Vernet (1758-1836) French painter known for his horses, caricatures and later, battle scenes
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Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Florence
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Carlo Maratta (1625-1713) Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known for his paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner
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Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) Italian painter in the late baroque manner, active mostly in Rome
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Carneades (c214–c129 BC) an Academic Skeptic philosopher born in Cyrene who, by the year 159 BC, had started to refute all previous dogmatic doctrines, especially Stoicism
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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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Catherine de’ Medici (1519-1589) an Italian noblewoman who was also queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, by marriage to King Henry II
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Catherine II (1729-1796) also known as Catherine the Great, born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country’s longest-ruling female leader
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Catherine II (1729-1796) known as Catherine the Great, was empress regnant of All Russia from 1762 until 1796
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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II
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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II
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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II
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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II
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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II
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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II
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Charlemagne (748-814) King of the Franks, the Lombards and from 800 AD, Holy Roman Emperor
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Charles Abbott, Baron Tenterden (1762-1832) British barrister, judge and Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
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Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516-1544) English courtier and patron of learning
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Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (1562-1606) created Earl of Devonshire in 1603
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Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) Naturalist and philosophical writer, born in Geneva, and responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant
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Charles Brandon (c1484-1545) 1st Duke of Suffolk
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Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484-1545)
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Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484-1545) and his wife Mary (1496-1533) sister of Henry VIII
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Charles Churchill (1732-1764) English poet and satirist
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) British Army officer, colonial administrator and one of the leading British generals in the American Revolutionary War
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) British Army officer, colonial administrator and one of the leading British generals in the American Revolutionary War
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Charles Cotton (1630-1687) English poet and writer
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Charles Cotton (1630-1687) English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from French
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond (1613-1703) French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic who, after 1661, lived in exile, mainly in England
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond (1613-1703) French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic who, after 1661, lived in exile, mainly in England
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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 Fleetwood (c1618-1692) Lieutenant General in the Parliamentary army and politician
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Charles Fleetwood (c1618-1692) Lieutenant General in the Parliamentary army and politician
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Charles Fleetwood (c1618-1692) Lieutenant General in the Parliamentary army and politician
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Charles Gerard 1st Earl of Macclesfield (1618-1694) English aristocrat, Royalist soldier and courtier
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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845) British Whig Prime Minister
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624) English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624) English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624) English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles James Mathews (1803-1878) English actor, playwright and theatre manager
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Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812-1862) English statesman, son of George Canning, Prime Minister and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857
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Charles John, Lord Konigsmarke (1659-1686) Swedish soldier
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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 le Brun (1619-1690) French painter and art theorist influenced by Poussin
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Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a court painter to Louis XI
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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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Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (1658-1735) English nobleman and military leader
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Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (1658-1735) English nobleman and military leader
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Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (1658-1735) English nobleman and military leader
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Charles Patin (1633-1693) a French physician and numismatist, son of Guy Patin, dean of the school of medicine in Paris, and a friend of Jacob Spon
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Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton (1630-1699) English nobleman, the son of John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) English lawyer and judge who was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) English lawyer and judge who was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) English lawyer and judge who was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury
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Charles Rollin (1661-1741) French historian and educator
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Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643-1706) was an English poet and courtier to Charles II
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Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643-1706) was an English poet and courtier to Charles II
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Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748) British peer known as The Proud Duke who rebuilt Petworth House in Sussex, the ancient Percy seat inherited from his wife
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Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby (1628-1672)
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Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox (1639-1672) 12th Seigneur d’Aubigny in France, was an English nobleman of Franco-Scottish ancestry
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Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot (1685-1737) British lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
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Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (1660-1718) English politician who was one of the Immortal Seven group that invited William III, Prince of Orange to depose King James II
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Charles V (1500-1558) Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556 and King of Spain from 1516 to 1556
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Charles V (1500-1558) ruler of both the Spanish Empire (as Charles I) from 1516, the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506
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Charles VI Holy Roman Emperor (1685-1740) and Pretender to the throne of Spain as Charles III
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Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ( 1730-1782) British Whig statesman, who served two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782) British Whig statesman, who served two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth and Viscount Whitworth (1752-1825) British diplomat and politician
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Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765) French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo
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Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765) French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo
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Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) French painter, art commentator, playwright and court painter to the Louis XV
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Charlotte Charpentier, wife of Sir Walter Scott
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Charlotte de La Trémoille, Countess of Derby (1599-1664) wife of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
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Christian Friedrich Schwartz (1726-1798) German Lutheran missionary to South India
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Christina (1626-1689) Queen of Sweden from 1632 when she succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus and ruled the Swedish Empire from the age of 18 until her abdication in 1654
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Christine Marie, Madame Royale (1606-1663) second daughter of Henry IV of France
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Christoph (Keller) Cellarius (1638-1707) a German classical scholar from Schmalkalden who held positions in Weimar and Halle
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) German composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) an Italian explorer and navigator whose four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean opened the way for European exploration of the Americas
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) an Italian explorer and navigator whose four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean opened the way for European exploration of the Americas
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Chrysippus of Soli (c279-c206 BC) a Greek Stoic philosopher a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school
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Cimabue (c1240-1302) Italian painter from Florence, one of the first to break from the Italo-Byzantine style
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Cimon (c510-450 BC) was an Athenian statesman and general in mid-5th century BC Greece, the son of Miltiades, the victor of the Battle of Marathon
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Claude Fleury (1640-1723) French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian
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Claude Lefèbvre (1632-1675) French painter and engraver
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Claude Lorrain (c1600-1682) French painter and draughtsman of the Baroque era
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Claude Lorrain, born Claude Gellé (c1600-1682) French landscape painter and draughtsman of the Baroque era
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Claude Saumaise (1588-1653) also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar
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Claude-Joseph Vernet (17141789) French painter
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Cock of the Green, Alexander McKellar d. 1813, tavern owner in Edinburgh’s New Town
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Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) Scottish mathematician
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Colonel Becley from a drawing by Bullfinch in the Royal Collection
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Colonel Francis Hacker (died 1660) parliamentary soldier and regicide
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Colonel James Gardiner (1688-1745) who died at the Battle of Prestonpans on the Government side
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Colonel John Hewson (d. 1662) (the Cobbler) regicide
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Colonel John Hewson (died 1662) regicide
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Colonel John Hewson (died 1662) regicide
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Colonel Taliaferro Preston Shaffner (1811-1881) American inventor, entrepreneur and associate of Samuel Morse, who promoted telegraphy during its infancy
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Colonel Thomas Blood (1618-1680)
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Constantia Lucy, Lady Coleraine d.1680
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Constantine Henry Phipps (1797-1863) 2nd Earl of Mulgrave
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Constantine Henry Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (1797-1863) British Whig politician and author who served as Home Secretary and also British Ambassador to France
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Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562-1638) Dutch painter and draughtsman, a leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands
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Cornelis de Witt (1623-1672) was a Dutch politician and older brother of Johan
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Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp (1629 -1691) a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal Danish Navy
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Cornelis Schut (1597-1655) Flemish painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer
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Cornelis Schut (1597-1655) Flemish painter, engraver and tapestry designer
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Cornelis van der Geest (1575-1638) Antwerp spice merchant, who used his wealth to support local artists and to establish his art collection
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Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464) an Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance
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Count Gondomar (1567-1626) Spanish Ambassador to England
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Cristofano Allori (1577-1621) Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school
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Cropley Ashley-Cooper (1768-1851) 6th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Daniel Axtell (1622-1660) regicide
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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea (1647-1730) English Tory statesman and Secretary of State
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Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (1580-1655) one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance
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Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London
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Daniel Mytens (c1590-1648) Dutch portrait painter working in England
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Daniel Mytens (c1590-1648) Dutch portrait painter working in England
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Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) Irish political leader who campaigned for Catholic emancipation. Richard Lalor Sheil (1791-1851), Irish politician, writer and orator and one of O’Connell’s leading supporters
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Daniel Seghers (1590-1661) was a Flemish Jesuit brother and painter who specialized in flower still lifes
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Daniel Wilson (1778-1858) English Bishop of Calcutta
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Daniel, Oliver Cromwell’s porter, who suffered from “excessive religious enthusiasm” and was admitted to Bethlem in 1656
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Daniele Ricciarelli, known as Daniele da Volterra (c1509-1566) Mannerist Italian painter, sculptor and associate of Michelangelo
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Dante Alighieri (c1265 – 1321) Italian poet whose Divine Comedy is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages
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Dante Alighieri (c1265-1321) Italian poet whose Divine Comedy is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages
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David 8th Earl of Huntingdon (1152-1219)
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David Erskine, 2nd Lord Cardross (1616-1671)
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David Garrick (1717-1779) English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
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David Gregory (1661-1708), Astronomer
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David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist
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David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist
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David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist
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David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c1600-1682) cavalry officer in the English and Scottish Civil Wars
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David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c1600-1682) cavalry officer in the English and Scottish Civil Wars
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David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c1600-1682) cavalry officer in the English and Scottish Civil Wars
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David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c1600-1682) cavalry officer in the English and Scottish Civil Wars
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David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish physician, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa
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David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851) Scottish physician and writer from Musselburgh who was a regular contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine in Edinburgh
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David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and miniaturist painter
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David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and miniaturist painter
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David Wilkie R. A. (1785-1841) Scottish painter
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David Wilkie R. A. (1785-1841) Scottish painter
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David Wilkie RA (1785-1841) Scottish painter
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Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy 1767-1839) Cornish engineer, author, politician who became President of the Royal Society
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Death of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566-1625)
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Demetrios Chalkokondyles (1423-1511) an eminent Greek scholar, taught in Italy for over forty years and published the first printed publications of Homer in 1488
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Democritus (c460-c370 BC) an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe
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Denis Pétau (1583-1652) also known as Dionysius Petavius, was a French Jesuit theologian
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Denzil Holles (1599-1680) English statesman and one of the Five Members of Parliament whom Charles I failed to arrest thereby starting the English Civil War
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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher
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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher
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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher
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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher
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Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal
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Diogenes (c412-323 BC) a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy, born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, and died at Corinth
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Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859) Irish professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at University College, London and scientific writer who popularised science and technology
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Dionysius the Renegade (c330-c250 BC) also known as Dionysius of Heraclea, a Stoic philosopher and pupil of Zeno of Citium who abandoned Stoicism later in life
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dmiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726-1799) British naval officer during the War of the Austrian Succession, The Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War
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Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494) Italian Renaissance painter who became part of the so-called “third generation” of the Florentine Renaissance
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Domenico Zampieri, called Domenichino (1581-1641) Italian Baroque painter
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Dominic Collins, Irish Jesuit priest executed in London in 1602
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Don Giovanni de’ Medici (1567-1621) the illegitimate son of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became an Italian military commander, diplomat and architect
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Donato Bramante (1444-1514) Italian architect who introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, with his plan for St. Peter’s Basilica
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Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland (1617-1684) wife of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, and the daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, and Lady Dorothy Percy
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Dorothy Wadham (c1535-1618) wife of Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609) and as his widow in pursuance of his wishes, was the foundress of Wadham College, Oxford
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Dr Arthur Johnstone (c1577-1641)
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Dr Giles Everard, Author of ‘Panacea, or Virtues of Tobacco’ 1659
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Dr Glen and the Daft Highland Laird
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Dr Isaac Dorislaus (1595-1649) Historian and Lawyer, assassinated by a group of Royalists in Holland
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Dr James Graham on the North Bridge in a High Wind
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Dr James Hutton (1726 – 1797) and Dr Joseph Black (1728-1799) Pilosophers
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Dr John Bridgeman (1577-1652) Bishop of Chester
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Dr John Chambers (d.1556) first Bishop of Peterborough
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Dr. Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) English inventor who graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom
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Dr. John Armstrong (1709-1779) Physician, poet and satirist, the son of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire
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Dr. John Armstrong (1709-1779) Physician, poet and satirist, the son of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire
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Duccio di Buoninsegna (c1255-c1319) Italian painter considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages
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Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762-1847) prominent British politician
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Dugald Stewart Esq (1753– 1828) Scottish philosopher and mathematician
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Duncan Campbell of Lochow (d.1453) 1st Lord Campbell, husband to Marjory, or Mariota Stewart, daughter of Robert duke of Albany, governor of Scotland
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Duncan Forbes of Culloden (1644–1704) Lord President of the Court of Session
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Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754) Scottish minister
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Edmund Burke MP (1730-1797) Irish author, orator and political theorist
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Edmund Burke MP (1730-1797) Irish author, orator and political theorist
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Edmund Burke MP (1730-1797) Irish author, orator and political theorist
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Edmund Campion, English Jesuit Martyr (1540-1581)
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Edmund Elys (c1633–1708) English clergyman and poet