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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, 1694-1773

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Born into the English aristocracy, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield had the family connections and wealth to live, in the words of the Dictionary of National Biography, as "politician, wit, and letter-writer." Upon the death of Queen Anne in 1714, his family connections enabled him to leave his life of travel and leisure to take up at the age of 20 what was the beginning of a fluctuating political career. Chesterfield was influential in government circles but the role of o...

Polwhele, Richard, 1760-1838

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Nollekens, Joseph, active 1800-1853, sculptor

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Banks, Thomas

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Cipriani, Giovanni-Battista, artist

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Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821

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Epithet: RA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x00021b Epithet: RA, artist and diarist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000200 English landscape painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mr. Scott, Engraver, 1814 Jul. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270522790 F...

De La Rochefoucauld, François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de Liancourt, and (1792) Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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More, Hannah, author

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Pulteney, William

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Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de

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Paoli, Pasquale, General; President of Corsica

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Fox, Henry

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Epithet: nephew of William Fox and land agent to the Lamb family British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000263 Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch iv.48 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x000180 Epithet: of Add MS 28256 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Cumberland, Richard

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Epithet: Secretary to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x00025b Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000220 The author was the son of the playwright Richard Cumberland (1732-1811), who was a friend of Garrick, Goldsmith, Reynolds and others of Johnson's ci...

Bartolozzi, Francesco, RA; engraver

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Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819

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Peter Pindar is the pseudonym of John Wolcot, an English satirist. From the guide to the Peter Pindar letter to John Walker, 1805-1812, (Ohio University) John Wolcot studied medicine in London, took his M.D. at Aberdeen, and became physician-general of Jamaica. After returning to England, he met the painter John Opie and in 1780 the two moved from Truro to London, where Wolcot devoted himself to the writing of verse satires, mostly published under the name "Peter Pindar." ...

Blount, Martha, friend of A Pope

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Mudge, John, 1721-1793

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Locke, John, philosopher

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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, portrait-painter

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Louis XVI, of France

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Smeaton, John

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Epithet: FRS; civil engineer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0003e5 ...

Cowley, Hannah, -1809, Mrs; author

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Zaehnsdorf, Joseph, bookbinder

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Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685

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Epithet: Bishop of Killala and Achonry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000442.0x00037c Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000442.0x00037e ...

Knighton, William

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Epithet: Keeper of th, Privy Purse 1822 Title: 1st Baronet 1812 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x0000a6 ...

Beattie, James

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x0001fa Epithet: of Add MS 28167 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x0001f8 Epithet: of Add MS 32563 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x0001f9 ...