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149 famous people found
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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 -
Jane SEYMOUR
Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII
1508 - 1537 -
Robert BLAKE
One of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century
1598 - 1657 -
Erasmus DARWIN
English physician
1731 - 1802 -
William CAVENDISH
English courtier
1505 - 1557 -
Richard HAWKINS
English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog"
1562 - 1622 -
William DE LA POLE
English commander in the Hundred Years' War and Lord High Admiral of England
1396 - 1450 -
Jethro TULL
English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution
1674 - 1740 -
Edward VERNON
Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station
1723 - 1794 -
Edward VERNON
English naval officer
1684 - 1757 -
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 -
George CANNING
British Tory statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1770 - 1827