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  • William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

    William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

    British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain

    English1738 - 1809
  • Francis DRAKE

    Francis DRAKE

    English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era

    English1540 - 1596
  • Lord Byron

    Lord Byron

    English romantic poet and peer

    English1788 - 1824
  • Isaac NEWTON

    Isaac NEWTON

    English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian

    English1643 - 1727
  • William SHAKESPEARE

    William SHAKESPEARE

    English poet and playwright

    English1564 - 1616
  • James Smithson

    James Smithson

    English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name

    English1765 - 1829
  • Anne BOLEYN

    Anne BOLEYN

    Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII

    English1501 - 1536
  • Richard CROMWELL

    Richard CROMWELL

    Second ruling Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

    English1626 - 1712
  • Mary BOLEYN

    Mary BOLEYN

    Sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn

    English1499 - 1543
  • James COOK

    James COOK

    English explorer, navigator and cartographer

    English1728 - 1779
  • Adam SMITH

    Adam SMITH

    British economist, philosopher, and author

    English1723 - 1790
  • Anne BRADSTREET

    Anne BRADSTREET

    English poet

    English1612 - 1672
  • Elihu YALE

    Elihu YALE

    British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor

    English1649 - 1721
  • George DOWNING

    George DOWNING

    Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy

    English1623 - 1684
  • John BYRON

    John BYRON

    Royal Navy officer

    English1723 - 1786
  • Thomas GAINSBOROUGH

    Thomas GAINSBOROUGH

    English portrait and landscape painter

    English1727 - 1788
  • William Beckford

    William Beckford

    English novelist

    English1760 - 1844
  • Jane AUSTEN

    Jane AUSTEN

    English novelist

    English1775 - 1817
  • John GOODRICKE

    John GOODRICKE

    English amateur astronomer

    English1764 - 1786
  • John BERKELEY

    John BERKELEY

    English royalist soldier

    English1602 - 1678
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