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British noblewoman.

1st and last duchess of Inverness .

Eldest daughter of Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.
Wife of Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney published over dozens of volumes of poetry and essays. Her poetry frequently engages native American and anti-slavery concerns within a religious context, and often takes the form of elegy.

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.

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.