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).
French portrait painter and miniaturist.
Second wife of D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (Pedro IV, King of Portugal). She was Empress Consort of the Empire of Brazil from 1829 to 1831.
King of the Netherlands.
Daughter of Louis-Philippe King of the French. She married Leopold I, King of Belgium in 1832.
King of the Belgians.
Politician and writer.
Maltese lithographer and painter. Settled in London in 1809.
London merchant banker, founder of Frederick Huth & Co.
Secretary of the Athenaeum Club
Businessman and philanthropist, born in Calcutta, Bengal, India, the second son of Rammani Tagore (1759–1833), police officer, and his first wife, Menaka, daughter of Ramakanta Roy of Jessore.
Lithographic printer.
Irish politician and writer.
Scottish author, biographer and historian.
Scottish political writer and politician.
Mistress of Lord Byron, writing her own biographical accounts of him.
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.
British poet and public servant.
Wheatstone made several important contributions numerous branches of science, such as optics. However, his name has been most closely connected with the electric telegraph.
Spanish Arabist and polymath.
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.
Italian patriot and military leader.