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William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK
British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain
1738 - 1809 -
Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596 -
Richard CROMWELL
Second ruling Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
1626 - 1712 -
George DOWNING
Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy
1623 - 1684 -
John HARVARD
English minister in America
1607 - 1638 -
George BINGHAM
British Army officer
1800 - 1888 -
James OGLETHORPE
British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia
1696 - 1785 -
William BLIGH
Officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator
1754 - 1817 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
John CARTERET
British statesman and Lord President of the Council
1690 - 1763 -
James WALDEGRAVE
British ambassador
1684 - 1741 -
Philip STANHOPE
British statesman and man of letters
1694 - 1773 -
Thomas GAGE
British general, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
1719 - 1787 -
William CAVENDISH
English courtier
1505 - 1557 -
John WENTWORTH
British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution
1737 - 1820 -
Charles MONTAGU
English poet and statesman
1661 - 1715 -
Henry VANE THE YOUNGER
English politician, statesman, and colonial governor, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1613 - 1662 -
Thomas PELHAM-HOLLES
British Whig statesman, Prime Minister of Great Britain
1693 - 1768 -
Charles WATSON-WENTWORTH
British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain
1730 - 1782 -
William GRENVILLE
British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1759 - 1834