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Dr Alexander 'Sandy' Wollaston was the Medical Officer and Naturalist of the 1921 British Mount Everest Expedition. He was killed by a student in Cambridge in 1930.

Sandy Wollaston was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber and explorer and part of the 1921 Expedition to Everest. After qualifying as a surgeon in 1903, Wollaston decided to spend his life on exploration and natural history, travelling extensively; he wrote books about his travels and work, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1907. He took up an offer from John Maynard Keynes to be a tutor at Cambridge. He was shot dead by Douglas Potts, a deranged undergraduate student, in Cambridge in 1930.

Belgian Congressman.

Belgian judge and politician.

Wife of Joshua Bates (1788-1864), American financier.

Dutch anti-classicist and extravagant artist working at a time when classicism dominated Dutch art, he was the most ardent propagandist of the era of William and Mary, producing dozens of illustrated broadsheets on the main events of their reign. Besides these, De Hooghe illustrated some hundred books, including literary texts and historical and topographical works.

Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (1626-1650).

Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium (from 1832).

French engraver, printmaker, lithographer and printer.

French politician and diplomat.

Englishwoman who married Thomas Cochrane in 1812. Her father was Thomas Barnes from Romford, Essex and her mother was believed to be a Spanish dancer.

General of cavalry of the Austrian Army. Founder of the Haus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry and the catholic branch of the Saxe-Coburg.

Daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág.