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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.

Italian politician and economist.

Scottish political economist.

Philosopher, economist and advocate of women's rights.

Geologist and geographer.

Surgeon and antiquary.

Antiquary and banker.

Archivist and historian.

Headmaster at Eton.

British noblewoman.