Belgian politician. Member of House of Representatives 1831-1848.
Ninth child of George III and Queen Charlotte.
The tenth child of George III and Queen Charlotte.
Prince Leopold's father, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, was uncle to both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Prince Leopold achieved major general in the Austrian army.
German lithographer, trained in Berlin. Noted portraits include Friedrich Wilhelm IV on horseback.
French portrait painter and miniaturist.
Second wife of D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (Pedro IV, King of Portugal). She was Empress Consort of the Empire of Brazil from 1829 to 1831.
Daughter of Louis-Philippe King of the French. She married Leopold I, King of Belgium in 1832.
Secretary of the Athenaeum Club
Lithographic printer.
Mistress of Lord Byron, writing her own biographical accounts of him.
Wheatstone made several important contributions numerous branches of science, such as optics. However, his name has been most closely connected with the electric telegraph.
Italian patriot and military leader.
Italian politician and economist.
Archivist and historian.
American draughtsman and engraver. Active in Philadelphia.
Essayist and poet, one of the first American authors to achieve international fame.
Irish novelist and socialite.
Engraver, mainly in line.
German naturalist and explorer who made major contributions to various sciences, including geology, geomagnetism, and meteorology.
American diplomat.