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British noblewoman.

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.

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.

Whig politician.

From 1830, Lady of the bedchamber to the queen dowager Adelaide.

The only son of William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743–1805), a younger brother of George III and his wife Maria (née Walpole), formerly Countess Waldegrave.

Assistant to the elder Thomas Cadell (1742–1802), bookseller and publisher, when he was chosen by him in 1793 as a partner for his youthful son Thomas Cadell the younger (1773–1836) in the management of his business. From that time the business traded as Cadell and Davies, and Cadell the younger left the management of the business to his partner until Davies fell ill in 1813.

Reproductive stipple engraver.

Engraver of portraits, genre scenes and animals. One of the leading pointillist and mezzotint engravers of his day.