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British politician.

Founder of the Royal Academy of Music, London in 1823.

John Bull was a fictitious embodiment of Englishness and British imperialism.

Philanthropist and wife of Lord Byron.

Linnell had a long and very successful career as an artist, but modern assessments of his importance centre on his early work, and on his relationships with his fellow artists William Blake and Samuel Palmer, who became his son-in-law in 1837.

Courtier and vicereine of India.

Line, stipple and mezzotint engraver who worked in London.

Portrait engraver in London. Brother of William Holl the younger (1807-1871). Later emigrated to USA.

Maurice Platnauer was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1956 to 1960. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. A classicist, he was a master at Winchester College from 1910 to 1915. During World War One he was an officer with the Royal Garrison Artillery and met up with George Mallory. In 1922 he became a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He was Vice-Principal of Brasenose from 1936 to 1956; and Editor of the Classical Quarterly from 1936 to 1947; and an Honorary Fellow of New College from 1957.

Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851–1940), physicist

Elizabeth Van de Weyer (née Bates) was from Massachusetts and the only daughter Joshua Bates (1788-1864) of Barings Bank. She comforted Queen Victoria following the death of Prince Albert.

Promoter of book collecting among the aristocracy, and promoter of first-hand examination of books in the compilation of bibliographies.

Irish novelist and educationist.

One of the leading reproductive printmakers of his time.

Radical journalist.

Irish journalist and novelist.