Autograph collection, 1816-1917 1816-1917

Thomson, William O. (William Orville)

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Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910

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Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, in 1821 to a politically outspoken father committed to fairness among his male and female children. In 1832, Samuel Blackwell moved his family to the United States in part for financial reasons but also to participate in the abolitionist movement. Two of his daughters would grow up to continue this fight against slavery and to work towards women's rights, specifically in the area of women in medicine. After years of struggling to be taken ...

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898

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William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister and author, was born in Liverpool, on Dec. 29, 1809; the fifth child and youngest son of Sir John Gladstone and Anne Mackenzie Gladstone. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in preparation for a future in the British political world. He married Catherine Glynne, whom he met in Rome, in 1839, and together they had eight children. Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in January 1833, and over the next sixty years was involved i...

Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900) was a physician. In 1834 Acland matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1840, M.A. in 1842, M.B. in 1846, and M.D. in 1848. In 1840 he was elected fellow of All Souls' College and, in the same year, commenced the study of medicine, entering himself at St. George's Hospital, London. It was for his services to medicine and medical education that Acland was accorded his Baronetcy in 1890. See the Dictionary of National Biogra...

Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl, 1805-1875

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Philip Henry Stanhope was the 5th Earl Stanhope. He was also known as Lord Mahon. He was a historian and was the author of History of the war of the succession in Spain (London: J. Murray, 1832) and History of England (London: J. Murray, 1836-1854). From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122591081 ...

Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895

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French chemist and microbiologist. Amongst other things Pasteur proved that microrganisms caused fermentation and disease, he originated and was the first to use vaccines for rabbits, anthrax and chicken cholera and he performed important pioneer work in stereochemistry and he originated pasteurization. From the description of Letter. 1890 Apr. 26. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225747724 French physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1...

Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany, 1853-1884

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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow in 1881, In 1882 the prince married Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont. He died of as a result of his haemophilia his in Cannes in 1884. ...

Thomson, William

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Epithet: Common Clerk of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000202 Epithet: of Farnborough, county Southants British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0001f8 Epithet: Archbishop of York; of Seal CXLIV British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001...

Radstock, Granville Waldegrave, Baron, 1833-1913

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Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894

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French physiologist, neurologist and endocrinologist. From the description of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard papers, 1871-1889, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31383182 Brown-Sequard was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1886. From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 703640281 From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 7021624...

Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892

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English historian. From the description of Letters, 1881-1895, to Charles Henry Hart. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34491671 Historian. From the description of Edward Augustus Freeman letter, 1872. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450338 English historian best known for his "The History of the Norman Conquest." From the description of Bulgaria and Servia : an original manuscript / by Eward A. Freeman. [1885?] (State Historical...

Astor, Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1879-1952

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Waldorf Astor, second Viscount Astor, was born in New York City on May 19, 1879, the elder son of William Waldorf Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul. He was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. In 1906 he married the American divorcee, Mrs. Nancy Langhorne Shaw. Pursuing a career in politics, he won a seat in Parliament as a Unionist member for Plymouth, Devon, in 1911. Upon the death of his father in 1919 he was forced to accept the title of viscount and resign from the House of Commo...

Gairdner, James, 1828-1912

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Bright, W.

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Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett), 1832-1917

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English anthropologist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : to Prof. Knight, 1890 Oct. 15-[18]92 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573733 Sir Edward Burnett Tylor 1832-1917, was an anthropologist, and Keeper of the University Museum, Oxford. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Linden, Wellington, Somerset, to R. Morton Middleton. 1882. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223093531 Epithet: Keeper ...

Fisher, H.A.L. (Herbert Albert Laurens), 1865-1940

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Moore, E. M.

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Howe, Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, Earl, 1796-1870

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Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, 1829-1902

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Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941

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Epithet: Knight 1911. Poem in memory of E A British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0002a8 Epithet: Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum; Knight 1911 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0002a7 ...

Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

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Eugenicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. Born in Birmingham, England, educated in Boulogne, Kenilworth and King Edward's School, Birmingham; trained in medicine at Birmingham General Hospital and Kings College London until 1840; B. A. Trinity College, Cambridge. A generous inheritance allowed him to devote his life to travel, and to the study of a succession of virtually unexplored fields: the weather; physical and mental characteristics in man and animals; the influence of heredity on them; her...

Hill, Octavia, 1838-1912

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Epithet: social reformer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000065 English activist for housing reform for the poor and advocate for preservation of open spaces, places of natural beauty and historic sites. From the description of Octavia Hill autographed letters : to Mrs. Tebb, 1890-1894. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 9626652 English philanthropist. ...

Hutton, William Holden, 1860-1930

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William Holden Hutton (1860-1930) was archdeacon of Northampton. From the guide to the Papers of W.H. Hutton as archdeacon of Northampton, 1911-19, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

Abernethy, John, 1764-1831

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Abernethy lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery at St. Bartholomew's, and as a result, became the founder of the medical school. From the description of Notes from lectures by John Abernethy, 1805. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 50003146 ...

Normanby, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Marquis of, 1819-1890

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British army officer, governor of Victoria and Queensland (Australia) and of New Zealand, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. From the description of Letters of George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Marquis of Normanby, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454668 ...

Bonney, T.G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923

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Thomas George Bonney was born 27th July in Rugeley, the eldest of 10 children born to Reverend Thomas Bonney, master of Rugeley Grammar School, and his wife Eliza Ellen, daughter of Edward Smith of Rugeley. At the age of 14 he attended Uppingham School, where he was head boy, before attending St Johns College, where he graduated as Twelfth wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1856 and obtained a second class in the classical tripos. Illness prevented him from sitting for the theol...

Turner, William, Sir

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Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1851-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185813 From the description of Correspondence with Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1911-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86144402 From the description of Correspondence with Gilbert Murray, 1904-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003845 From the description of Laboratory notebook, 1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77931094 ...

Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904

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English journalist and reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899208 Frances Power Cobbe, English philanthropist, social worker, and religious author, advocate of women's rights, education for poor and neglected children, and anti-vivisectionist. From the description of Correspondence to France Power Cobbe, 1855-1904. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens...

Beresford Hope, A. J. B. (Alexander James Beresford), 1820-1887

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Horsley, Victor, Sir, 1857-1916

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English neurologist and neurosurgeon. From the description of Letter, 1886, Mar. 16 : [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35092031 ...

Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904

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Epithet: physician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x000162 ...

Moore, E. M., collector.

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Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894

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French physiologist, neurologist and endocrinologist. From the description of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard papers, 1871-1889, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31383182 Brown-Sequard was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1886. From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 703640281 From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 7021624...

Bramwell, George William Wilshere Bramwell, Baron, 1808-1892

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Bramwell assisted in the draft of the Common Law Procedure Act (1852), and was appointed to the court of appeals as Lord Justice (1876). From the description of Letters to the Texas Historical Society, 1887-1888. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338368 ...

Holland, Henry, 1st viscount Knutsford, 1825-1914

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Crookes, William, 1832-1919

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Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79021310 ...

Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841

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English surgeon. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Perth, to Lady Bell, 1837 Sept. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526970 Surgeon who in late 1792, Cooper developed the subject of surgery as a separate course from anatomy. In 1816, he performed his celebrated operation of tying the aorta for aneurism. From the description of Lectures on surgery by Sir Astley Cooper, 1819. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 50003144 B...

Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925

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Francis Darwin was the son of British naturalist Charles Darwin, and followed his father into the study of botany. Dr. Harkness studied fungi. He was the president of the California Academy of Sciences, 1887-1896. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Dr. Harvey Wilson Harkness, nd. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864475 Francis Galton Darwin was a botanist. From the description of Letters, 1868-1925. (American Philosophical Society Library). World...

Jenyns, Leonard, 1800-1893

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Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913

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Wallace was a naturalist and collaborator with Darwin on the theory of evolution. From the description of Letter, 1895, January 16, Parkstone, Dorset, to Wallis Mansford, Esq. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 123275202 Epithet: FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x00011f British naturalist. From the description of Letters to E. D. Girdlestone : ALS, 18...

Fowler, W.Warde (William Warde), 1847-1921

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Stubbs, William, 1825-1901

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William Stubbs (1825-1901), the historian, bishop of Chester and afterwards of Oxford, was born at Knaresborough, and educated at Ripon Grammar School, and at Christ Church, Oxford. His chief work, The constitutional history of England, in 3 volumes, was issued in 1874-78, and at once became the standard authority on the subject. The notes on the history of Ripon Minster were compiled while he was a student at Christ Church. From the guide to the Notes on Ripon Minster, compiled by W...

Grant Duff, Mountstuart E. (Mountstuart Elphinstone), Sir, 1829-1906

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Author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea Embankment, to Prof. Knight, 1900 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269567223 Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff was an English statesman and writer who served as Governor of Madras, India, 1881-1886. From the description of Mountstuart Grant Duff letter to J.W. Parker, 1860 Oct. 7. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50616677 ...

Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902

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German pathologist. From the description of Papers, 1865-1874. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35551332 ...

Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930

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British Prime Minister, 1902-1905. From the description of Papers, 1882-1908. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19210580 British Prime Minister. From the description of Letters to the Duchess of Sutherland [manuscript], 1895-1917. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647916243 Correspondents include: Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of England; Alexander Hugh Bruce, Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland; Sir John Edward Be...

Spottiswoode, William, 1825-1883

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Mathematician and physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to officers of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1858-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83717699 From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82803769 Epithet: printer, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000169.0x0000d9 Epithet: President of the Royal Society ...

Nasmyth, James, 1808-1890

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James Nasmyth, writer in Edinburgh. From the guide to the Diary of James Nasmyth, 1688-1704, 1688-1704, (University of St Andrews) Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001297.0x000229 British inventor. From the description of Letter, 1861 December 17 : Penshurst, Kent. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852926 ...

Rennie, John

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Epithet: FRS; civil engineer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x00023c Epithet: of Add MS 35752 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x00023f Epithet: of Add MS 11815 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x00023d Epithet: engineer ...

Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster, Viscount, 1842-1915

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Phipps, George, Sir, Lord Mulgrave

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Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899

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Halifax, Charles Lindley Wood, Viscount, 1839-1934

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Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940

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English physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1927 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572272 Physicist (cathode rays, atomic structure, electrons) and administrator. On the faculty at University of Cambridge (1884-1940): director, Cavendish Laboratory (1884-1918), physics faculty (1894-1919), and master of Trinity College (1918-1940); and on the natural philosophy faculty at the Royal Instituti...

Broadbent, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1835-1907

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English physician. From the description of William Henry Broadbent note, 1900, Sep., [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847971 Epithet: physician Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x000202 ...

Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913

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John Lubbock was an English banker, politican, scientist, antiquarian and man of letters. He became the first Baron Avebury, ca. 1900. From the description of Letter : London, England to Douglas Murray, 1911 October 27-31 / Avebury. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 701491819 English banker and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (20) : London, Beckenham, St. Andrews, etc., to W.A. Knight, 1883 July 19-1907 Nov. 13, and undated...

Besant, Annie, 1847-1933

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Theosophist and political leader in India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Crowther, 1888 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623129 Annie Wood Besant was born in London to Irish parents. An early marriage to a young clergyman ended in divorce, as Annie's increasing progressivism led to social activism. She renounced the Church, and became one of the most formidable and sought after writers and lecturers for such causes as the Freethink...

Laurie, Peter, Sir, 1778-1861

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Sir Peter Laurie, Scottish saddler and politician. From the description of Sir Peter Laurie manuscript material : 1 item, 1816 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 707851860 ...

Osborn, Sherard, 1822-1875

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McDougall, W.

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Rutherford, William G. (William Gunion), 1853-1907

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Epithet: classical scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000244.0x000351 ...

Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930

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Astronomer and seismologist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford, from 1893 until his death. As well as directing the teaching and research of the University Observatory, Oxford, Turner was a promoter of international freiedships and collaboration in astronomy, and after 1913 continued the important seismological work of John Milne. From the description of Papers, 1900-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830617 Professor of astronomy, Oxfo...

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852

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English field marshal. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Jameson Tennent, 1835 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270856519 British statesman and army officer. From the description of Papers, 1819-1904; (bulk 1819-1850). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273724 British general and statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : to Messrs. Jones & Co., 1806 Feb. 25-1806 Mar. ...

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. Northcote, 1862 Mar. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129748 John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, the first Baron Acton, was an English aristocrat and historian. His Catholicism influenced his early life, and he travelled throughout Western Europe and the United States. He had a brief Parliamentary career, but remained an important advisor to the Liberal government of William Gladstone. He wro...

Barlow, Thomas, Sir, 1845-1945

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Thomas Barlow was born on 4 September 1845 at Brantwood Fold, Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, the eldest son of James Barlow (1821-1887), mill-owner, and his wife Alice n?e Barnes (d. 1888). He attended local schools and in 1863 went to Owen's College Manchester to read natural science, graduating BSc. (London) in 1867. He went up to University College London to study medicine in 1868, and on qualifying in 1870 was appointed house physician to Sir William Jenner at University Col...

Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-

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Kennedy, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1788-1879

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Epithet: Commissioner of Woods and Forests; of Add MS 43194 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000576.0x000082 Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x00006c Epithet: MP for Ayr Burghs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000576.0x000084 ...

Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 1805-1894.

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French diplomatist and noted engineer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to the Marquise Visconti, 1861 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591336 Lesseps was a French diplomat and promoter of the Suez Canal. From the description of Autograph letter signed , 1878 June, and carte-de-visite. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872482 ...

Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895

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French chemist and microbiologist. Amongst other things Pasteur proved that microrganisms caused fermentation and disease, he originated and was the first to use vaccines for rabbits, anthrax and chicken cholera and he performed important pioneer work in stereochemistry and he originated pasteurization. From the description of Letter. 1890 Apr. 26. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225747724 French physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1...

Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929

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Edwin Ray Lankester was a British zoologist and author. He taught at Exeter College (1872-1874), University College (1874-1882), Edinburgh University (1882-1891), and Oxford (1891-1927). From the description of Letters, 1892-[ca. 1903]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465793 From the guide to the Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester letters, 1892-[ca. 1903], 1892-1903, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Beddle, John, 1826-1911

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Judd, John W. (John Wesley), 1840-1916

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Epithet: geologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x0000a0 Born Portsmouth, 1840; educated Camberwell, Royal School of Mines; Geological Survey of England and Wales, 1867-1870; Inspector of Schools, 1871; President of the Geological Society, 1887-1888; Professor of Geology, 1876-1905; CB, 1895; Dean of the Royal College of Science, 1895-1905; Emeritus Professor of Geology, Imperial College,...

Newton, C. T. (Charles Thomas), 1816-1894

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English archaeologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Raphaël, Var. to Mrs. William Wetmore Story, 1887 Feb. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610830 ...

Ollier, M.

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Owen, Richard, 1804-1892

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Richard Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From the description of Letter from Richard Owen to Charles Léopold Laurillard to introduce John Gould, 1833 [manuscript]. [1833] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277137992 Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; authority on comparative anatomy, vertebrate paleontology and geology. From the description of Osteological contributions to the natural history of the chimpanzees (Tr...

Swanwick, Anna, 1813-1899

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Anna Swanwick was a British author and translator of German works. From the description of Anna Swanwick papers, 1851-1897, n.d. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36730963 English scholar, author and poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Bath, to Prof. Knight, 1892 Nov. 17-1892 Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580413 From the description of Autograph letters (4) signed : Regents Park n. w., to...

Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898

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Epithet: engineer and inventor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001346.0x000232 ...

Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913

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U. S. Army surgeon and founder of the Army Medical Library. From the description of John Shaw Billings letters, 1891, Apr. 13 and May 13, New York City, to W.R. Benjamin. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992422 1860. Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, with A.B., M.A. From the description of General correspondence June 1862-Oct. 1901 [microform]. (Alma Public Library). WorldCat record id: 7883610 The Adjutant General of the Army had re...

Burrows, Ronald Montagu

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Turner, Sharon, 1768-1847

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Yarmouth, to an unidentifed recipient, 1810 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573575 ...

Haines, John

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McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly), 1860-1936

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Irish author and politician. From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [n.p.], to Harper & Bros., stamped 1900 Dec. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608778 British dramatist, novelist, and historian. From the description of Two letters to Andrew Chatto and one letter to Messers Chatto and Windus, 1880-1897. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122444082 Justin Huntly McCarth...

Puller, F. W. (Frederick William), 1843-1938

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F.W. Puller (S.S.J.E.) was the author of several works, including The Bull Apostolicae Curae and the Edwardine Ordinal, Primitive Saints and the See of Rome, and The Anointing of the Sick in Scripture and Tradition. From the description of F. W. Puller letter to Viscount Halifax, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122386050 ...

Royal Society (Great Britain)

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Dixon, Richard Watson, 1833-1900

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Epithet: Reverend; ecclesiastical historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000440.0x0002a8 ...

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

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Huxley was an Britist botanist especially known for his work in comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology. From the description of [Letter] 1857? May 31, Geological Survey of Great Britain [to] Sir / T. H. Huxley. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 244251868 English scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ilkley, to W.A. Knight, 1886 Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269526779 Student, Royal School of Mines, London, Eng...

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903

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Historian and essayist. From the description of Letter of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014892 Irish historian and essayist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : London, to W.A. Knight, 1886 Apr. 5-1901 Oct. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598501 From the description of Democracy and liberty : autograph manuscript, 1896 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598803 From the descript...

Sinnett, A.P. (Alfred Percy), 1840-1921

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Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892

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Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and graduated B. A. 1843 as Senior Wrangler and lst Smith's prizeman. Fellow of St. Johns. Then undertook to determine the cause of the perturbations of Uranus and left the results at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich 1845, but his discovery was anticipated by Urban J. J. Le Verrier (for. Mem. R. S. 1847) in July 1846. Le Verrier received the Copley Medal 1846 and Adams 1848. Lowndean Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge, 1858. Director of Cambridge Observat...

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

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English author and statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland, to T.J. Cobden Sanderson, 1889 Jan. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573152 English author and statesman; nephew of Macaulay. From the description of Autograph letter signed : House of Commons, to Moncure Conway, 1880 Jul. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573156 British politician and author. From the description of [Let...

Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir, 1838-1938

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Wakeman, Henry Offley, 1852-1899

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Epithet: Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000701.0x000241 ...

Rassam, Hormuzd, 1826-1910

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1845-1852 assistant to Henry Layard; 1852-1854 archaeologist at Nimrud and Kuyunjik; 1854-1860 interpreter, second then first assistant political agent at Aden; 1860-1861 negotiator in Muscat; 1864-1866 mission to Ethiopia; 1866-1868 prisoner of Emperor Theodore; 1868 fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; 1877 investigator into condition of Christian minorities in Asiatic Turkey; 1878-1882 archaeologist for the British Museum in Babylonia, Assyria, Van and Khabur. Ep...

Hassall, Albert, 1862-1942

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Lubbock, J. W. (John William), 1803-1865

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English cleric William Buckland worked as a geologist and vertebrate paleontologist. The first Reader of Geology, University of Oxford (from 1819), Buckland is most noted as the scientific discoverer of dinosaurs. From the guide to the William Buckland papers, 1817-1848, 1817-1848, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934

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Epithet: biographer and historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x0000ca ...

Lavet, P.

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Gleig, G. R. (George Robert), 1796-1888

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British soldier and military historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, "My dear Hughes", 1852 Sept. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269572159 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Royal Hospital, Chelsea, to "My dear Shaw", [no year] Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269580993 ...

Braddon, Edward, Sir, 1829-1904

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Politician, Member of House of Assembly, Tasmania, 1879-1889, 1894-1901; Premier 1887, Premier and Treasurer 1894-1899. Represented Tasmania at Federal Council and Federal Convention, 1897. M.H.R. 1901-1903. (Australian Encyclopaedia). From the description of Letters [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225757727 ...

Bentham, George, 1800-1884

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English botanist; nephew of Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832 From the guide to the George Bentham letter to Asa Gray, ., (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x000263 ...

Sayce, A.H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933

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English philologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Alexandria, Egypt, to [Frank] Cowper, 1925 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270965746 Archibald Henry Sayce was born in Shirehampton, England, on September 25, 1845. Despite poor health as a child, Sayce was reading Greek classics by the age of ten. In 1858, he began studying Hebrew. Sayce entered Oxford in 1865 where his education was hampered by poor eyesight and failing health. He e...

Poole, Reginald Lane, 1857-1939

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0000e7 ...

Ericksen, Sir John Eric, 1818-1896

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Watson, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1882

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English physician. From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Cavendish Square, to the President and Vice Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1867 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270660314 ...

Frankland, Edward, Sir, 1825-1899

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Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936

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Charles Harding Firth was born in Sheffield on 16 March 1857. He received his education from Clifton College, New College, Oxford and Balliol College, Oxford where he graduated with a degree in Modern History in 1878. After lecturing for a period at his uncle's foundation, Firth College, he moved to Oxford in 1883. He was a history lecturer at Pembroke College, from 1883 to 1893, Ford's lecturer 1900-1901, in 1902 he became a research fellow at All Souls and he was Regius Professor ...

Richet, Charles, 1850-1935

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French physiologist; received 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology-Medicine. From the description of Letters, 1917, undated, France. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31775427 ...

Hopkins, Ellice, 1836-1904

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Gardner, P.

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Congreve, William, Sir, 1772-1828

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Epithet: of Add MS 31230 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x0003d0 ...

Hunter, William Wilson, Sir

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Olcott, Henry Steel, 1832-1907

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Epithet: Colonel; county -founder of the Theosophical Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000357.0x000223 Theosophist and author. From the description of Letter of Henry Steel Olcott, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454785 ...

Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896

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Epithet: MD, FRCP; Knight 1893 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0002a2 British physician and professor of medicine. From the description of Papers, 1887-1893. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35284199 ...

Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884

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Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Joseph Carson papers, 1810-1877, 1810-1877, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Lankaster, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929

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Gull, William Withey, Sir, 1816-1890

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British physician. From the description of Note, 1873, Jan. : to Librarian, Royal Society. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31615510 ...

Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899

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Corrigan, Dominic, Sir, 1802-1880

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Sir Dominic Corrigan, M.D., was physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. From the description of Letter : Dublin, to Sir Wm., 1869 Jan 26. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 703640297 From the description of Letter : Dublin, to Sir Wm., 1869 Jan 26. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702162534 ...

Baden-Powell, George, 1847-1898

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Politician and author Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell was born in Oxford, part of a large, successful, and aristocratic family. His education was interrupted by health concerns, and he travelled abroad for three years, before graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. He took a position as secretary to the governor of Victoria, and thereafter served on various commissions, as well as four terms in Parliament. In addition to travel and political activities, Baden-Powell was a prolific writer, complet...

Grote, George, 1794-1871

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Threadneedle Street", to W.W. Hickson [William Edward Hickson?], 1835 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503892 From the description of Trial and death of Socrates : autograph manuscript, ca. 1832. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270881620 George Grote was born on 17 November 1794. He was educated at a school in Sevenoaks, Kent and Charterhouse, where he remained for six years. At Charterho...

Pocock, Nicholas, 1814-1897

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Romanes, George John, 1848-1894

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George John Romanes,(1848–1894), and John Thomas Gulick,(1832-1923),were both evolutionary biologists. From the guide to the John Thomas Gulick correspondence with George J. Romanes, 1887-1893, 1887-1893, (American Philosophical Society) English biologist and scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Prof. Knight, [18]73 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657248 ...

Parkes, Edmund A. (Edmund Alexander), 1819-1876

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Henslow, E. W.

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Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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Kitchin, G. W. (George William), 1827-1912

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Dean of Durham; author of "Ruskin in Oxford and other studies", 1904. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Durham, to Joan Severn, 1903 Oct. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 763526979 ...

Kelvin, William Thomson, baron, 1824-1907

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617799 From the description of Papers, 1905-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830683 From the description of Correspondence, 1836-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84971911 British mathematician and physicist. From the description of Letters signed (2) and autograph postcard signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1890 Jan. 25...

Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899

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British surgeon and physiologist. From the description of Papers, 1880-1898. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31716044 English surgeon. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 21 September 1872, to an unidentified recipient, 1872 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674194 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1884 June 7. (Unknown). WorldCat r...

Turner, Wm. (William), Sir, 1832-1916

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English anatomist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : to Prof. Knight, [1898?] Mar. 1 to 1902 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573589 ...

Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904

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English surgeon. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to J.E. Millais, [year not specified] July 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 690673469 Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x0000a4 Epithet: Customs officer in I of St Thomas British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0...

Currie, Edmund Hay

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Manby, George William, 1765-1854

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English inventor. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : [n.p.], to R. Cole, 1842 Oct. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607909 ...

Sydney

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