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American novelist.

Painter and draughtsman, chiefly of portraits.

American draughtsman and engraver. Active in Philadelphia.

Professor of anatomy and surgery at Dartmouth College.

Master of Magdalene College, 1604-1626

Former undergraduate, admitted Pensioner in 1582. BA in 1587. Wray Fellow 1588.
He had been granted special dispensation to study civil law in 1591.

French judge and politician.

French painter and draughtsman of historical and religious subjects and portraits.

Essayist and poet, one of the first American authors to achieve international fame.

Irish novelist and socialite.

The first monthly issue of Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country appeared in February 1830.

The Ferrar family involved in the creation of the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College Cambridge span from Nicholas Ferrar (1544-1620) to Martha Peckard, née Ferrar (1729-1805).

Bolívar was active in the Latin-American independence movement from 1808 onwards. Although his military career was not without its failures, he succeeded in driving the Spanish from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador; Upper Peru was named Bolivia in his honour.

In 1827 he became professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy, a post he held until his death. During his forty-year career he created about 275 works and early on distinguished himself as a leading sculptor of civic and national monuments.

One of Virginia's foremost orators.

Engraver, mainly in line.

Whig politician.

From 1830, Lady of the bedchamber to the queen dowager Adelaide.

German naturalist and explorer who made major contributions to various sciences, including geology, geomagnetism, and meteorology.

American diplomat.

The only son of William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743–1805), a younger brother of George III and his wife Maria (née Walpole), formerly Countess Waldegrave.