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31Thomas Overbury — Sir Thomas Overbury (1581 ndash; 15 September 1613), English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton on the Hill, and was born at Compton Scorpion,… …
32Henry Ireton — Infobox Politician (general) name = Henry Ireton birth date = 1611 birth place = residence = death date = 1651 death place = Limerick, Ireland office = MP in the Long Parliament and Rump Parliament party = religion = Independent spouse = Bridget… …
33John Wilson (Scottish writer) — John Wilson (18 May 1785 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine .BiographyJohn Wilson was born at Paisley, the son of a wealthy gauze… …
34John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley — John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley PC (9 August 1781 ndash; 6 March 1833), known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician. He served as Foreign Secretary from …
35John Somers, 1st Baron Somers — John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, PC, FRS (4 March 1651 ndash;26 April 1716) was Lord High Chancellor of England under King William III.He was born at [http://www.clainesfriends.org.uk Claines] , near Worcester, the eldest son of John Somers, an… …
36Thomas Stanley (author) — Thomas Stanley (1625 ndash; April 12, 1678) was an English author and translator. He was the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire and his wife, Mary Hammond. Mary was the cousin of Richard Lovelace, and Stanley was educated in… …
37Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet — (1583 ndash; April 19, 1627), was an English poet.He was born at Grace Dieu in Leicestershire, the second son of the judge, Sir Francis Beaumont.The deaths of his father (in 1598) and of his elder brother, Sir Henry Beaumont (in 1605), made the… …
38James Cowles Prichard — MD FRS (February 11, 1786 – December 23, 1848), English physician and ethnologist, was born at Ross on Wye in Herefordshire. His influential Researches into the physical history of mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. Life and education …
39Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) This is an outline of the six volume work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, authored by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794). It also includes a Gibbon chronology …
40Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh — (1742 – 1786) was descended from Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor of London in 1558, and inherited the Leigh family seat at Stoneleigh Abbey, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire following the death of father Thomas Leigh, 4th Baron Leigh in 1749.Leigh spent his… …
