Horner/Lyell Papers. Album originally containing letters and papers of and relating to George Washington, and to a number of British, American and other statesmen, soldiers and others. Partly French, Italian, Hungarian. Partly copies. Partly prin... 1785-1894
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Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849
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Charles Lyell (1767–1849) was a Scottish botanist, known also as a translator of Dante. Lyell was born on 7 March 1767, at Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scotland. He was the eldest son of Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scotland, and Mary Beale of West Looe; his sister Anne married Gilbert Heathcote. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, the University of St. Andrews and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1791, proceeding M.A. in 1794. A law student at Lincoln's I...
Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864
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Leonard Horner was a Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer. He was the younger brother of Francis Horner. He was a founder of the School of Arts of Edinburgh and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Academy; he was also involved in the establishment of University College School. As a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories, Horner arguably did more to improve the working conditions of women and children in North England than any other perso...
Lyell, Mary Horner, 1808-1873
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Mary Horner Lyell (9 October 1808 – 24 April 1873) was a conchologist and geologist. She was married to geologist Charles Lyell and assisted him in his scientific work. She never became widely known in her own right, although it is believed by historians that she likely made major contributions to her husband's work. Her own known independent work includes her studies in the Canary Islands, in which she studied land snails in 1854....
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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Mazzini, Giuseppe, Italian patriot
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Horner, Francis
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Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry, 1780-1863, formerly Petty, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
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First son of Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, by his second wife, Lady Louisa. Following Cambridge and a Grand Tour, Lord [Fitzmaurice] entered parliament in 1802 and, at the age of twenty six, he joined the Ministry of All the Talents as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Fitzmaurice became a leading figure in the opposition following the fall of Grenville’s administration in 1807, and campaigned consistently for liberal reforms, including the international abolition of...
Grey, Charles
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Epithet: Viscount Howick Prime Minister Title: 2nd Earl Grey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000399 Title: 2nd Earl Grey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000070 Title: 1st Earl Grey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Desc...
Russell, John, Earl of Bedford
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Title: Earl of Bedford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000244.0x0001f1 Epithet: Bishop of Lincoln British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0001c2 Title: 6th Duke of Bedford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386....
Lucas, Margaret Bright, daughter of John Bright MP
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Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Lord Ashley, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Cobden, Richard
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Epithet: of Add MS 37053 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x00016b Richard Cobden was born in 1804 a contemporary of Jane, Lady Franklin (1792-1875) wife of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Cobden died in 1865 From the guide to the Richard Cobden collection, 1854, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Epithet: of Add MS 38794 British Library Archi...
Wellesley, Arthur
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Title: 1st Duke of Wellington British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x000136 Epithet: Colonel; Commissioner for the affairs of Mysore, etc., afterwards Duke of Wellington British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000191 Arthur Wellesley (1796-1852), military leader famous for his victory over Napoleon at the battl...
Paoli, —, General
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Huskisson, W. (William), 1770-1830
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William Huskisson (1770-1830), British statesman, served as plenipotentiary during the 1825-26 border negotiations with the United States. From the description of Willam Huskisson papers, 1824-1826. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126655 Epithet: statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00031d English statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : ...
Windham, William, Sec for War and the Colonies
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Epithet: of Add MS 34195 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x0000ca Epithet: Secretary at War (1794-1801) British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x0000cf Epithet: of Felbrigg British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000...
Campbell, George Douglas, 1823-1900, 8th Duke of Argyll, statesman
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1852-1855 Lord Privy Seal; 1855-1858 Postmaster-General; 1859-1866 Lord Privy Seal; 1868-1874 Secretary of State for India; 1880-1881 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 8th Duke of Argyll British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000234 ...
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Auckland, George Eden, Earl of, 1784-1849
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George Eden, earl of Auckland, politician and governor-general of India. He and his sisters Emily Eden and Fanny, who kept house with him, were esteemed members of Whig society. From the guide to the Lord Auckland manuscript material : 2 items, 1827-1846, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) George Eden, earl of Auckland, politician and governor-general of India. He and his sisters Emily Eden and Fanny, who kept house with ...
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MacMurdo, Montagu, Sir, General
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Franklin, Benjamin, Jr.
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Washington, George, 1732-1799
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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...
Grenville, William Wyndham, , 1759-1834
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Epithet: Prime Minister Title: Baron Grenville British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000302 ...
Jeffrey, Francis
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Epithet: Lord Jeffrey, critic, Lord Advocate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000379 ...
Romilly, Samuel, Sir, MP, law reformer
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Bunbury, Henry, Sir, 1778-1860
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English army officer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Rome, to Emily Napier, whom he was to marry the following year, 1829 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531397 ...
Murray, John
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Epithet: publisher, d1843 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0002e6 Epithet: of Add MS 31910 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002a4 Epithet: Ambassador to Turkey (1765) British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x000298 Epithet: o...
Tierney, George, statesman
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Newport, John, of Seal CXLIX
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Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0002f4 Epithet: of Seal CXLIX British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001197.0x0002ad Epithet: of Carrick, county Tipperary British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000013...
Sheil, Richard Lalor, MP
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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x0002e8 ...
Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824
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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...
Pellew, Edward, 1st Viscount Exmouth
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Title: 1st Viscount Exmouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x0002a7 ...
Whitbread, Samuel
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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x000331 Epithet: of Add MS 34456 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x000090 Epithet: junior, MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x000345 Epithet: of Southill, near Biggleswade ...
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
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Epithet: of Add MS 12099 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002fc Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000300 Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), dramatist and politician, was born in Dublin on 30 October 1751, and educated at Harrow, 1762-1768. A production of his comedy The rivals was a...
Lyell, Mary, wife of Leonard 1st Baron Lyell
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Epithet: wife of Leonard 1st Baron Lyell British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0003bb ...
Grey, George, of Add MS 36191
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Epithet: son of Thomas, 1st Marquis of Dorset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001089.0x0001d2 Epithet: of Fallodon Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x000340 Epithet: KCB, colonial governor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue ...
Pulszky, Therese, author
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Playfair, John, Professor of Edinburgh
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Epithet: Professor of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x0000ef ...
Horner, John
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Epithet: Quaker; of Tadcaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x00027d Epithet: merchant of Edinburgh, father of F Horner British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x0000f1 ...
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, of Add MS 36720
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Epithet: of Add MS 35026 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000446.0x00002b Epithet: Italian patriot British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x0002ec Epithet: of Add MS 37772 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000446.0x...
Napier, George Thomas, Sir, General KCB
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Epithet: General KCB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000121 ...
Knatchbull, Edward, Sir, 9th Baronet
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Title: 8th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x0003b4 Epithet: 9th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x0000f8 ...
Moore, John
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Epithet: of Add MS 43000 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x0002bc John Moore was born in Massachusetts and moved to Talladega, Alabama. Although he was educated as a doctor, he entered the mercantile business in Alabama. He lost all his property in 1855 and moved to Texas. From the guide to the John Moore papers, 1837-1866, (Manuscripts and Archives) Epithet: Alderman of Queenhithe a...
Erskine, Thomas
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Epithet: Lord Erskine of Dirltone, Earl of Kellie British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001087.0x00022f Epithet: KC, judge of CP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x000174 Thomas Erskine (1750-1823), first Baron Erskine, politician, barrister and lord chancellor. From the guide to the Two letters from Thomas Erskine...
Jervis, John
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Epithet: Earl of St Vincent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000336 Epithet: Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas (1850) British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000268.0x0002e3 Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description ...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...
Canning, George, 1770-1827
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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and letters signed (2) : [London] to Robert Southey and various correspondents, 1811 June 17-1827 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858738 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Christ Church [Oxford], to Mr. Legge, 1793 Mar. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133346 British statesman and politician; Prime Minister, 10 April 1827 - 8 August 1827. From the descri...
Wilberforce, William
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Epithet: MP; of Add MS 27937 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000010 Epithet: MP; of Add MS 37873 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000012 Epithet: son of William Wilberforce British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/...
Cobbett, William, MP
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Epithet: essayist and politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000209.0x000371 Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x00012b Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x00014...
Mallet, Louis, Sir, Subject of Mss Eur D726
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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur D726 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x00006d Epithet: CB, Under-Sec of State for India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000160 ...
Peel, Robert
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Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001f3 Epithet: Prime Minister Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00016a Epithet: Right Hon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/v...
Vassall Fox, Henry Richard, 1773-1840, formerly Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
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Epithet: formerly Fox, 3rd Baron Holland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00012c ...
Pulszky, Franz von
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Epithet: Hungarian patriot British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x0000e2 Epithet: Hungarian archaeologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0000fc ...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...
Chantrey, Francis, Sir, 1781-1841
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English sculptor. From the description of Autograph letter in third person not signed : Belgrave Place [London], to an unidentified lady, n.d. [before 1835]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270621807 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Belgrave Place [London], to John William Vaughan, 1821 July 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270622047 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Edwin Landseer, 1836 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...
Head, Edmund Walker, Sir, 8th Baronet, Governor-General of Canada
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Epithet: Governor-General of Canada Title: 8th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000321 ...
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859
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1801-1804 assistant to governor-general's political agent at Poona; 1804-1808 resident at Nagpur; 1808 envoy to Kabul; 1811-1817 resident at Poona; 1819-1827 governor of Bombay; 1841 author of History of India Epithet: Governor of Bombay, historian of India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x00026a ...
Kossuth, Lajos
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Epithet: Hungarian patriot British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x00002a Epithet: Hungarian patriot; of Add MS 42583 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x0002aa ...
Copley, John Singleton, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
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Title: 1st Baron Lyndhurst British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000394 ...
Wilson, Richard.
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Student at University of Maine. From the description of Folklore paper, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70953492 ...
Bright, John, of Add MS 37772
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Epithet: statesman; of Add MS 38835 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x000132 Epithet: Dr of Manchester Square London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0003d9 Epithet: MP; of Add MS 28509 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ...
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm27jt (person)
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Abbotsford, Melrose, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1818] Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 747107129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified to Charles [Sharpe], [1817 or later?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 745119219 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [William Slade], 1803 June [3]. (Unknown). W...
