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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 -
Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824 -
Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727 -
William SHAKESPEARE
English poet and playwright
1564 - 1616 -
Mary Shelley
English novelist
1797 - 1851 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
Anne BOLEYN
Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII
1501 - 1536 -
Richard CROMWELL
Second ruling Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
1626 - 1712 -
Fletcher Christian
English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
1764 - 1793 -
Mary BOLEYN
Sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn
1499 - 1543 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Adam SMITH
British economist, philosopher, and author
1723 - 1790 -
Anne BRADSTREET
English poet
1612 - 1672 -
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
1649 - 1721 -
George DOWNING
Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy
1623 - 1684 -
John BYRON
Royal Navy officer
1723 - 1786 -
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
English portrait and landscape painter
1727 - 1788 -
Robert Catesby
Leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605
1573 - 1605 -
William Beckford
English novelist
1760 - 1844