Authors, Historians, Poets
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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 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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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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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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Alaric Alexander Watts (1797-1864) British poet, journalist and conservative writer whose life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing
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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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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 Henderson (1583-1646) Scottish theologian, one time minister at Leuchars and important ecclesiastical statesman of his period
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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 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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Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) English poet and politician
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Anacreon (c582-c485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems
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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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André Dacier (1651-1722) French classical scholar and editor of texts
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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 Le Fèvre Dacier (1647-1720) French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) French economist and statesman
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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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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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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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Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) barrister, journalist, actor, biographer, translator and playwright of Irish origin, raised and lived in London
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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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Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 AD) Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin
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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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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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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 “Ben” Jonson (1572-1637) English playwright and poet best known for his satirical plays
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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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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 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 Churchill (1732-1764) English poet and satirist
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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 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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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 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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Christoph (Keller) Cellarius (1638-1707) a German classical scholar from Schmalkalden who held positions in Weimar and Halle
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Claude Fleury (1640-1723) French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian
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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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Colonel Taliaferro Preston Shaffner (1811-1881) American inventor, entrepreneur and associate of Samuel Morse, who promoted telegraphy during its infancy
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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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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe
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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 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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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 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 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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Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy 1767-1839) Cornish engineer, author, politician who became President of the Royal Society
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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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Denis Pétau (1583-1652) also known as Dionysius Petavius, was a French Jesuit theologian
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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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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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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 Isaac Dorislaus (1595-1649) Historian and Lawyer, assassinated by a group of Royalists in Holland
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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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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 Elys (c1633–1708) English clergyman and poet
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Edmund Lodge (1756–1839) Herald, English officer of arms and a compiler of short biographies
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Edmund Lodge (1756–1839) Herald, English officer of arms and a compiler of short biographies
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Edmund Ludlow (c1617-1692) an English parliamentarian, best known for his involvement in the execution of Charles I, and for his Memoirs, which were published posthumously
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Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) English poet best known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser (c1552-1599) English poet best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser (c1552-1599) English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I
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Edmund Waller (1606-1687) English poet and long-serving Member of the English Parliament
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Edmund Waller (1606-1687) English poet and long-serving Member of the English Parliament
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Edward Benlowes, Poet (1603-1676)
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Edward Calver (fl. 1649) English poet
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Edward Chisenhale (d.1653?) Historian
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) English writer and politician who served as an MP for 25 years, first as a Whig then Conservative
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian, writer and Member of Parliament
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian, writer and Member of Parliament
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian, writer and Member of Parliament
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian, writer and Member of Parliament
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) English statesman and Lord Chancellor to King Charles II
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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) English statesman and Lord Chancellor to King Charles II
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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) English statesman and Lord Chancellor to King Charles II
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Edward Moore (1712-1757) English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister at Abingdon, Berkshire
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Edward Reynolds (1599-1676) Bishop of Norwich in the Church of England and an author
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Edward Young (1683-1765) English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts his philosophical writings, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements
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Edward Young (1683-1765) English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts his philosophical writings, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements
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Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) English Antiquarian and Collector
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Elijah Fenton (1683-1730) English poet, biographer and translator
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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator and mystic
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Erasmus Robert Darwin FRS (1731-1802) English physician, inventor, poet, one of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment and Grandfather of Charles Darwin
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Erycius Puteanus (1574-1646) Flemish humanist author
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Euripides (c480-c406 BC) along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full
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Fabius Rusticus (died c108 AD) a Roman historian who was quoted on several occasions by Tacitus who also described him as a close friend of Seneca
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Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) English poet
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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635) Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist
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Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392-1463) an Italian Renaissance humanist historian who was one of the first historians to use a three-period division of history – Ancient, Medieval, Modern
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author
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Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher
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Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher
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Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857) British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts
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Francis Goldsmith (1613-1655) translator of the work of Hugo Grotius
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) Scottish judge and literary critic
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) Scottish judge and literary critic
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Francis Place (1771-1854) English social reformer active in the early chartist movement and later opponent of the Corn Laws
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651-1715) French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer
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François Eudes de Mézeray (1610-1683) French historian
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François Fénelon (1651-1715) French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus
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Frans Burman (1628-1679) Reformed minister who became professor at Utrecht University
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) German poet whose best known work is the epic poem Der Messias (“The Messiah”)
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Friedrich Spanheim the elder (1600-1649) a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden and father of Ezekiel Spanheim
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Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628) Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually known as Sallust (86-c35 BC) was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) the ‘Father of English literature’
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) the ‘Father of English literature’
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) the ‘Father of English literature’
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) the ‘Father of English literature’
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) the ‘Father of English literature’
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George Alsop (b1636) Author of early work on Maryland
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George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842) English peer and soldier, the eldest illegitimate son of King William IV
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George Buchanan (1506-1582)
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George Buchanan (1506-1582) Scottish Historian
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George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar
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George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar
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George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar
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George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar
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George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar
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George Chapman (c1559-1634) English dramatist, translator, and poet
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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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George Cruikshank (1792-1878) British caricaturist and book illustrator whose book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience
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George Gascoigne (c1535-1577) English poet and soldier considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era
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George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735) of Stowe, Cornwall, was an English Tory MP, playright and poet
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George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797-1833) British politician and man of letters
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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773) British statesman and author
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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773) British statesman and author
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George of Trebizond (1395-1486) a Greek philosopher, scholar and humanist who derived his surname Trapezuntius from his ancestors from the Byzantine Greek Trapezuntine Empire
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George Peabody (1795-1869) American financier and philanthropist who is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy
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George Robert Gleig (1796-1888) Scottish soldier, military writer, and priest who fought in the Peninsular war and the American war of Independence before he was 20 years old
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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman, writer, and politician
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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) English soldier, statesman and poet
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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) English soldier, statesman and poet
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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) English soldier, statesman and poet
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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) English soldier, statesman and poet
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George Washington (1732-1799) American statesman, soldier and the first President of the United States (within frame)
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) French naturalist, mathematician and cosmologist
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Gerald of Wales (c1146-c1223) a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon, historian and a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops who travelled widely and wrote extensively
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Gerrit Janszoon Vos (1577-1649) often known by his Latin name Gerardus Vossius, was a Dutch classical scholar and theologian
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Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) Scottish historian and Bishop of Salisbury
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Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) Scottish historian and Bishop of Salisbury
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Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) Scottish historian and Bishop of Salisbury
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Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) Scottish historian and Bishop of Salisbury
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Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) Scottish historian and Bishop of Salisbury whose major work is The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Italian writer, poet, humanist and correspondent of Petrarch
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Italian writer, poet, humanist and correspondent of Petrarch
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Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), later known as Giovanni Gioviano, was a humanist and poet from Cerreto di Spoleto, in central Italy
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) German polymath and philosopher prominent in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy
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Grant Thorburn (1773-1863) original of Galt’s ‘Lawrie Todd,’ and author, son of a nail-maker, was born at Westhouses, near Dalkeith, Midlothian
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Gregory of Nazianzus (c329-390) a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople and theologian
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Guido Panciroli or Pancirolli (1523-1599) a sixteenth-century Italian antiquarian, historian, jurist and law professor at Ferrara, Padua and Turin
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Guillaume Budé (1467-1540) a French scholar and humanist and the first keeper of the royal library at the Palace of Fontainebleau
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Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) also known as Adriaen de Jonghe, was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, antiquarian, historiographer and Latin poet
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Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist
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Hector Boece (1465–1536) Scottish philosopher and historian
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Hector Macneill (1746–1818) Scottish poet
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Hendrik Hoogeveen (1712-1791) Dutch philologer from Leyden
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Henry Aldrich (1647-1710) English theologian, philosopher, and composer
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Henry Brady, Author on Canon Law
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) British statesman and Lord Chancellor
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) British statesman and Lord Chancellor
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) British statesman and Lord Chancellor
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Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth (1596-1661) English nobleman and translator
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Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist, irony writer, and dramatist known for earthy humour and satire
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Henry Fuseli R. A. (1741-825) Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art
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Henry Hallam (1777-1859) English historian and author who practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit for some years before turning to history
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Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) Scottish judge and philosopher
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (courtesy title) (1517-1547) eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (courtesy title) (1517-1547) eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
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Henry Kirke White (1785-1806) English poet and hymn-writer who died at the young age of 21
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Henry Mackenzie (1745- 1831) Scottish lawyer and novelist
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Henry Mackenzie (1745- 1831) Scottish lawyer and novelist
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Henry O’Brien (1808-1835) Irish classicist and author best known for his hypothesis concerning Irish round towers
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Herbert Marsh (1757-1839) Bishop of Peterborough and author
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Herodotus (c484-c425 BC) an ancient Greek writer, historian and geographer who was born in the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the former Persian Empire
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Hesiod, the ancient Greek poet thought to have been active around the same time as Homer c750 BC
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Homer, the 8th century BC Greek epic poet and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Horatio (Horace) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, Whig politician and son of Prime Minister Robert Walpole
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Horatio (Horace) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, Whig politician and son of Prime Minister Robert Walpole
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Hugh Blair FRSE (1718-1800) Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse
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Hugh Blair FRSE (1718-1800) Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse
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Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) English scholar and theologian
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Hugh Crompton, Poet (fl.1657)
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Dutch Jurist
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Dutch Jurist
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Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England
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Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848) British writer, scholar and man of letters, best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
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Isaac Watts (1674-1748) English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
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Izaak Walton (1593-1683) English writer, author of The Compleat Angler who also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne
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Jacob Wilhelm Imhof (1651-1728) German genealogist from Nuremberg
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Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609) the Latinized name of Jakob Hermanszoon, a Dutch theologian from the Protestant Reformation period whose views became the basis of Arminianism
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Jacobus Gronovius a.k.a. Jacob Gronow (1645-1716) a Dutch classical scholar born in Deventer, the son of the German classical scholar Johann Friedrich Gronovius and Aleyda ten Nuyl
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Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris
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Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus) (1553-1617 a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris
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James Beattie (1735-1803) Scottish poet, moralist, and philosopher known for his poem ‘The Minstrel’
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James Beattie LLD (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740–1795) Scottish lawyer and diarist
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James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730– 1794) was a Scottish traveller and writer
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James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair (1619–1695) Scottish lawyer and statesman
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier
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James Harrington, Author (d.1677)
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James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet who co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles
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James Henry Monk (1784-1856) Bishop of Gloucester and classical scholar
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James Hogg (1770-1835) Scottish poet, novelist and essayist, also known as the Ettrick Shepherd, who wrote in both Scots and English
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James Hogg (1770-1835) Scottish poet, novelist and essayist, also known as the Ettrick Shepherd, who wrote in both Scots and English
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James Hogg (1770-1835) Scottish poet, novelist and essayist, also known as the Ettrick Shepherd, who wrote in both Scots and English
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James Hogg (1770-1835) Scottish poet, novelist and essayist, friend of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote in both Scots and English
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James Howell (c1594-1666) 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
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James Justinian Morier (1782-1849) British diplomat and author, born in Ottoman Smyrna, noted for his novels about the Qajar dynasty in Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series
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James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862) Irish dramatist and actor
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James Smith (1775-1839) English writer best known as co-author of the Rejected Addresses, with his younger brother Horace
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James Thomson (1700-1748) Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of “Rule, Britannia!”
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James Thomson (1700-1748) Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of “Rule, Britannia!”
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James Ussher, or Usher (1581-1656) Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland most famous for his chronology that put the Creation occurring in 4004 BC
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Jane Porter (1776-1850) Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure
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Jane Porter (1776-1850) Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure
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Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet, known above all for his Fables
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Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet, known above all for his Fables
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Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741-1788?) French Naval officer and explorer
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Jean Froissart (c1337-c1405) a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including Chronicles and Meliador, a long Arthurian romance
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Jean Froissart (c1337-c1405) author and court historian from the Low Countries known for his ‘Chronicles’, a prose history of the Hundred Years War
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Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) Genevan theologian and biblical scholar
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Moliere (1622-1673) French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language
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Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Genevan philosopher, writer and composer whose political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) philosopher, writer, and composer born in Geneva
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) philosopher, writer, and composer born in Geneva
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Jean-Louis de Lolme (1740-1806) Genevan and British political theorist and writer on constitutional matters
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
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Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cossio ( 1799-1835 ) writer, novelist and playwright in English, Spanish and French and Spanish liberal politician
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Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736) German classical scholar and bibliographer
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright
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Johann Freinsheim (1608-1660) German classical scholar and critic
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Johann Georg Graevius (1632-p1703) a German classical scholar and critic, born in Naumburg, in the Electorate of Saxony
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Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer and statesman whose works include four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose and verse drama
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer and statesman whose works include four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose and verse drama
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer and statesman whose works include four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose and verse drama
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Johannes Buxtorf the Younger (1599-1664) son of the scholar Johannes Buxtorf, and a Protestant Christian Hebraist
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Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639) a Dutch classical scholar and antiquary
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John Aubrey FRS (1626-1697) English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer best known as the author of the Brief Lives
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John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879) English actor, playwright and comedian who wrote 150 plays, the first of which was produced in 1826
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John Bale (1495-1563) Bishop and Playwright
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John Bunyan (1628-1688) English writer and Puritan preacher, author of the The Pilgrim’s Progress
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John Calvin, French reformer (1509-1564)
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John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786-1869) English politician and diarist and travelling companion of Byron’s on his Continental European journeys
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John Collinges (1623–1690) English theologian, prolific writer and a Presbyterian representative at the Savoy Conference
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John Cunningham (1729-1773) Dublin born playwright, poet and actor, who spent much of his life in Newcastle
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John Davies (1565-1618) English poet and writing master
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John Dennis (1658-1734) English critic and dramatist
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John Donne (1572-1631) English Poet and Cleric
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John Donne (1572-1631) English Poet and Cleric
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John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet and playwright
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John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet and playwright
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John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet and playwright
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John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet and playwright
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John Evelyn, FRS (1620-1706) English writer, gardener and diarist
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John Evelyn, FRS (1620-1706) English writer, gardener and diarist
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John Fisher (1469-1535) Bishop of Rochester, cardinal and theologian
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John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (1670-1746) English judge, politician and influential writer on English legal history
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John Foxe (c1517-1587) an English historian and martyrologist, author of Actes and Monuments, telling of Christian martyrs particularly the English Protestants and proto-Protestants
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John Galt (1779-1839) Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, political and social commentator and also first biographer of his friend and travelling companion Lord Byron
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John Gay (1685-1732) English poet and dramatist and best remembered for The Beggar’s Opera (1728)
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John Gay (1685-1732) English poet and dramatist best remembered for The Beggar’s Opera of 1728
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John Gerard (c1545-1612) English Botanist and Herbalist
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John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) son-in-law, and biographer, of Sir Walter Scott
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John Goodwin (1594-1665) English preacher and author
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John Gregory MD (1724–1773) Scottish physician and medical writer
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John Hall (1627-1656) Poet
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John Hawkesworth LLD (c1715-1773) English writer and book editor, born in London
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John Heywood (1497-1580) English epigrammatist
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John Hoddesdon, English Author
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John Home (1722-1808) Scottish minister and writer
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John Howard (1726-1790) was a philanthropist and early English prison reformer
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John Howson (c1557-1632) English academic and bishop
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John Hunter FRS (1728-1793) Scottish surgeon and anatomist
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John Hunter FRS (1728-1793) Scottish surgeon and anatomist
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John Hunter MD (1728–1793) Scottish surgeon
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Knox (c1514-1572), Scottish reformer
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John Knox (c1514–1572) Scottish reformer and writer
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John Leland (c1503-1552) was an English poet and antiquary who has been described as “the father of English local history and bibliography”
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John Lightfoot (1602-1675) English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Napier of Merchiston (1550–1617) Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
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John Pym (1584-1643) English parliamentarian and leader of the Long Parliament
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John Rushworth (1612-1690) English lawyer, politician and historian and compiler of a series of works covering the English Civil Wars throughout the 17th century called Historical Collections
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John Ruskin (1819-1900) leading English art critic of the Victorian era
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) British lawyer and politician who served three times as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
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John Skelton (c1463-1529) English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England
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John Speed (1551-1629) English cartographer and historian
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John Stow (1524-1605) an English historian and antiquarian who wrote a series of chronicles of English history including A Survey of London 1598
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John Strype (1643-1737) an English clergyman, historian and biographer
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John Wesley (1703-1791) English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism
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John Wilkes FRS (1725-1797) English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier
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John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) English poet and courtier of King Charles II
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John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) English poet and courtier of King Charles II
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John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) English poet and courtier of King Charles II
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John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) English poet and courtier of King Charles II
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John Wilson Croker (1780-1857) Irish statesman, author and critic best known as editor of an edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson in 1831
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John Wilson of Elleray (1785-1854) Scottish advocate, literary critic, author, editor and major contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine. He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820–1851)
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John Wolcot (1738-1819) English satirist, who wrote under the pseudonym of “Peter Pindar”
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John Wolcot (1738-1819) English satirist, who wrote under the pseudonym of “Peter Pindar”
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John Wycliffe (1320s-1384) English scholastic philosopher, theologian, Biblical translator, reformer, priest and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford
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John Wycliffe, reformer and translator (1328-1384)
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John, 1st Baron Cutts (1661-1707), British soldier and author
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, playwright, politician and co-founder of the magazine The Tatler
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, playwright, politician and co-founder of the magazine The Tatler
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, playwright, politician and co-founder of the magazine The Tatler
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, playwright, politician and co-founder of the magazine The Tatler
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Joseph Blackett (1785-1810) “late poet and shoemaker” from an epitaph by Lord Byron
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Joseph Hall (1574-1656) Bishop of Norwich, satirist and moralist whose contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s
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Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) French religious leader, scholar and Classical historian
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Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) French religious leader, scholar and Classical historian
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Joseph Priestley FRS (1733-1804) English natural philosopher, chemist, multi-subject educator and liberal political theorist
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Joseph Spence (1698-1760) an English divine and scholar and poet
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Joseph Warton (1722-1800) English academic and literary critic
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Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) British anatomist and naturalist
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Kasiprasad Ghosh (1809-1873) Bengali poet
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King Henry VIII (1491-1547) Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father, Henry VII
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Lady Anne Clifford, Countess Dowager of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) English peeress, patron of the arts and diarist
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Lady Anne Clifford, Countess Dowager of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) English peeress, patron of the arts and diarist
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Lady Grizel Baillie (1665-1746) Scottish songwriter and eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Hume (1641-1724)
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Lady Lettice, Viscountess Falkland, née Moryson (1610-46)
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Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1642-1711) English statesman and writer who later supported the Glorious Revolution in 1688
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Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1642-1711) English statesman and writer who was originally a supporter of James II but later supported the Glorious Revolution in 1688
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Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric
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Leonardo Bruni, or Leonardo Aretino (c1370-1444) an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance
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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
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Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) English poet, peer and politician
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Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) English poet, peer, politician
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Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) English poet, peer, politician
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Louis Ellies du Pin, or Dupin (1657-1719) French ecclesiastical historian
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Louis Moréri (1643-1680) French priest and encyclopedist
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Louis-Eustache Ude (1769-1846) chef and author of The French Cook, the best-known French chef in London before Alexis Soyer’s reign in the kitchens of the Reform Club (1837-50)
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Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637-1698) French ecclesiastical historian
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c4 BC-65 AD) usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, known as Seneca (c4 BC-65 AD) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature
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Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c1610-1643) English author, politician and Royalist soldier
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Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c1610-1643) English author, politician and Royalist soldier
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Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c1610-1643) English author, politician and Royalist soldier
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Ludovico Ariosto (1474 -1533) Italian poet, best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516)
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Ludovico Ariosto (1474 -1533) Italian poet, best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516)
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Luís Vaz de Camões, in English, Camoens (c1524-1580) is considered Portugal’s greatest poet
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Madame de Stael (1766-1817) French woman of letters of Genevan origin
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Madame de Stael (1766-1817) French woman of letters of Genevan origin
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Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus (1436-1506) a scholar and historian from Venice, known for his universal history, Enneades sive Rhapsodia historiarum
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Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) one of ancient Rome’s greatest scholars and a prolific author who is sometimes called Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus
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Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673) English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright
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Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673) English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright
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Mark Akenside (1721-1770) English poet and physician
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Mark Akenside (1721-1770) English poet and physician
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) German professor of theology, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) German professor of theology, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) German professor of theology, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
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Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) English author and dramatist, best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes based on a hamlet in Berkshire
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Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) sister of Philip Sydney, who achieved a major reputation for her poetry and literary patronage
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Matthew Gregory Lewis, Author of ‘The Monk’
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Matthew Henry (1662-1714) Nonconformist minister and author, who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England
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Matthew Paris (c1200-1259) an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire
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Matthew Prior (1664-1721) English poet and diplomat
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Matthew Prior (1664-1721) English poet and diplomat
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Matthew Wren (1585-1667) Bishop of Norwich, influential English clergyman, and scholar who accompanied Charles I to Holyrood Palace for his Scottish coronation in 1633
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Menander (c342-c290 BC) Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy who is known to have written 108 comedies
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Meric Casaubon (1599-1671) son of Isaac Casaubon, was a French-English classical scholar and the first to translate Meditations by Marcus Aurelius into English
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Michael Drayton (1563-1631) English poet
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English scientist whose main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis
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Michael Servetus (c1509-1553) Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
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Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835) British Tory MP whose prior experience as a Poor Law administrator in Leeds led him to oppose Malthusian theories of population
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Michel de Montaigne (1533-c1595) one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Spanish writer of Don Qixote, his masterpiece, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Spanish writer of Don Qixote, his masterpiece, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists
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Nicephorus Gregoras (c1295-1360) a Byzantine astronomer, historian, and theologian born at Heraclea Pontica in Asia Minor
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) French poet and critic often known simply as Boileau
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) French poet and critic often known simply as Boileau
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) well known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet
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Ovid with illustration of Daphne from Metamorphoses
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Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate
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Patrick Hannay (c1590-c1629) Scottish Poet
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Paul de Rapin de Thoyras (1661-1725) Huguenot historian writing under English patronage
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Paul de Rapin de Thoyras (1661-1725) Huguenot historian writing under English patronage