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Belgian physician and surgeon. Took part in the Battle of Waterloo as a doctor. Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Belgian major general.

Belgian lawyer, banker and politician. Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium.
Mayor of Brussels (1840-1841).
Minister of Justice (1841-1842).

Belgian lawyer and politician.

Belgian politician and diplomat; member of the House of Representatives.

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India.

British engraver (burin/mezzotint).

Master of Magdalene College, 1595-1604

John Palmer was born in Kent. He matriculated at St John's College in 1567. BA in 1572 and became a Fellow in 1573. MA in 1575.
In 1580 he was incorporated at Oxford University. He was Proctor of his college from 1587 to 1588. He was awarded DD in 1595.

1595-1604 Master of Magdalene College
1597-1607 Dean of Peterborough from 1597 to 1607
1605-1607 Prebendary of Lichfield

Palmer was imprisoned for debt, and died in prison in June 1607

Palmer made a clandestine marriage to Katherine Knevit, daughter of William Knevit of Little Vastern Park, Wiltshire on 29 March 1593

Palmer resigned the Mastership in 1604. The true reason for his resignation isn't clear but his protracted absences from Magdalene were an issue. Chiefly famous as a debtor and a place-seeker but as a Master, he appears to have been attentive when he was in residence, and the register records his careful oversight of College business. After he left he was voted a a payment as a 'gratuitie', implying that his departure wasn't acrimonious.

Lithographer.

The eleventh child of George III and Queen Charlotte.

British engraver. A pupil of Henry Fuseli at the Royal Academy and subsequently of Finden, whose assistant he later became. He worked on book illustrations until 1869, when he abandoned art.

Ruled 1826-8 and 1834-53.

Son of Lucien Bonaparte. Officer and Deputy of Corsica in the Constituent Assembly.

Major general in the Austrian army.

Half-sister of Queen Victoria and wife of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

In 1836 married Queen Maria II of Portugal and following Portuguese law, only acquired the title of King after the birth of their son in 1837.

Emperor of Brazil (1822–31).

Irish politician and writer.

Scottish author, biographer and historian.

Author and traveler. Her first book, the anonymous Aunt Dorothy's Tales (1837), was followed by Rambles in the South of Ireland (1839), of which the first edition sold out in a few weeks. After this she published extensively.

American historian and Hispanist, widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.

Born at Brescello in the duchy of Modena (then part of the Cisalpine Republic). In March 1856 Panizzi became head of the British Museum when he was promoted principal librarian to succeed Sir Henry Ellis.

Antiquary and banker.