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70 famous people found
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James Clark ROSS
British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry
1800 - 1862 -
William BLIGH
Officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator
1754 - 1817 -
Elizabeth GASKELL
British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era
1810 - 1865 -
Ethel LAVENU
British stage actress
1842 - 1917 -
Alfred TENNYSON
Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign
1809 - 1892 -
Erasmus DARWIN
English physician
1731 - 1802 -
Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911 -
John WENTWORTH
British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution
1737 - 1820 -
Peter HESKETH-FLEETWOOD
English landowner, developer and Member of Parliament, who founded the town of Fleetwood, in Lancashire, England
1801 - 1866 -
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 -
William Ewart GLADSTONE
British Liberal politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1809 - 1898 -
George DARWIN
English astronomer and mathematician
1845 - 1912 -
Arthur BALFOUR
British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1848 - 1930 -
Archibald PRIMROSE
British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1847 - 1929 -
Robert GASCOYNE-CECIL
British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister
1830 - 1903 -
William LAMB
British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary and Prime Minister
1779 - 1848 -
Charles GREY
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1764 - 1845 -
Augustus FITZROY
British Whig statesman, Prime Minister of Great Britain
1735 - 1811 -
William PETTY
Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary and then Prime Minister
1737 - 1805