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Authority recordValck, Gerard (1651/2-1726), engraver, mezzotinter and publisher
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- 1651/2-1726
Van Brée, Mattheus Ignatius (1773-1839), painter, draughtsman, sculptor and teacher
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- 22 February 1773 - 15 December 1839
Van Crombrugghe, Joseph (1770-1842), lawyer and politician
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- 1770-1842
Van Cutsem, Jean-Baptiste (1807-1859), lawyer and politician
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- 1807-1859
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- 1817-1878
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.
Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomat
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- 19 January 1802 – 23 May 1874
Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.
Van den Bossche, François (1783-1858), politician
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- 30 May 1783 - 20 June 1858
Belgian politician.
Van den Broucke de Terbecq, Baron François (1790-1870), administrator and politician
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- 17 January 1790 - 1870
Belgian politician. Member of House of Representatives 1831-1848.
Van den Burggraaff, Guillaume Philidor (1790-1812), lithographer
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- 1790-1812
Belgian lithographer.
Van den Steen, Louis (1813-1864), politician
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- 1813-1864
Van den Wiele, Adolphe (1803-1843), politician
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- 1803-1843
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Van Halen, Juan (1788-1864), military officer
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- 1788-1864
van Hulthem, Charles Joseph Emmanuel (1764-1832), bibliophile and botanist
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- 17 April 1764 - 16 December 1832
Van Mons, Jean-Baptiste (1765-1842), Belgian chemist and apothecary
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- 1765-1842
Van Solingen, Adriaan (1758-1830), physician
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- 1758-1830
Van Volxem, Guillaume (1791-1868), lawyer, banker and politician
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- 1791-1868
Belgian lawyer, banker and politician. Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium.
Mayor of Brussels (1840-1841).
Minister of Justice (1841-1842).
Van Ysendyck, Antoine (1801-1875), painter
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- 13 January 1801 - 14 October 1875
Vane, Charles William (1778–1854), 3rd marquess of Londonderry, army officer and diplomatist
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- 18 May 1778 - 6 March 1854
Vaughan, Robert (c. 1600-c. 1663), engraver
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- c. 1600-c. 1663
Verboeckhoven, Charles Louis (1802-1889), Belgian painter
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- 5 February 1802 - 25 September 1889
Verdussen, François-Joseph (1783-1850), politician
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- 10 May 1783 - 11 May 1850
Verhaegen, Pierre (1796-1862), lawyer and politician
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- 5 September 1796 - 8 December 1862
Belgian lawyer and politician.
Vernon-Jones, Vernon Stanley (1875-1955), classicist and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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- 1875 - 4 December 1955
Educated at King’s College. Made a Fellow at Magdalene in 1900. Director of Studies in Classics, Senior Tutor, Praelector, President (1937-1946). A good Greek scholar, though a somewhat eccentric character, obsessed by all matters digestive.
Obituary - College Magazine, October 1956
Verrall, Frederick (1857-?), undergraduate at Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Son of John Verrall of Southover, Lewes, Sussex. Privately educated.
Admitted pensioner, Magdalene College in 1880 aged 23.