Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables. The list of Previous Notables and Upcoming Entries has grown so long that I will post this once a week on Saturdays now.
Previous Notables (Click to see the Blog):
There will be many other notables coming, a full and changing list can be found here on the blog as I keep adding to it. The list so far is:
- Victoria
- William Holme Twentyman
- George Phillip Manners
- Granville Sharp
- David Livingstone
- Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry
- Daniel Gurney
- Adam Ferguson of Raith
- John Horsley Palmer
- John Pinch the Younger
- John Palmer (Commissary)
- William Paley
- Richard Watson
- Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Joseph Milner
- James Hutton
- John Boydell
- Viscount Robert Castlereagh
- George Canning
- James Stirling
- John MacBride
- William Waldegrave
- Price Blackwood
- Alexander Ball
- William Beatty
- Sir Sidney Smith
- Sidney Smith (wit)
- Geroge Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
- John Thomas Duckworth
- Admiral Adam Duncan
- Robert Linzee
- David Dundas
- Sir Hyde Parker
- Sir Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Hardy (Reformer)
- Charles Stuart (British Army Officer)
- Sir Peter Parker
- Sir William Parker
- Major General John Dalling
- William Cornwallis
- Charles Cornwallis
- William Baillie (artist)
- Sir Ralph Abercromby
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- George Colman the Younger
- Thomas Morton
- Barry Proctor
- William Henry West Betty
- Sir George Colebrooke
- Robert Emmet
- Thomas Fortescue Kennedy
- William Taylor of Norwich
- John Romilly
- Sir John Herschel
- John Horne Tooke
- James Mill
- Robert Owen
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Stuart Mill
- Thomas Cochrane
- Edward Jenner
- Claire Clairmont
- Fanny Imlay
- William Godwin
- William Hazlitt
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- James Edward Smith
- General Sir Robert Arbuthnot
- Harriet Fane Arbuthnot
- James Edwards (Bookseller)
- William Gifford
- Sir Joseph Banks
- Richard Porson
- Edward Gibbon
- James Smithson
- William Cowper
- Jacob Phillipp Hackert
- Wellington (the Military man)
- Cuthbert Collingwood
- Admiral Sir Graham Moore
- Sydney Smith
- Admiral Sir William Sydney Smith
- Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke
- Richard Colt Hoare
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
- William Howe
- Richard Howe
- Viscount Sir Samuel Hood
- Sir Samuel Hood
- Alexander Hood
- Thomas Hope
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Harriet Martineau
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Charles Pepys, Earl of Cottenham
- Sir Edward Michael Pakenham
- General Banastre Tarleton
- Francis Leggatt Chantrey
- Sir Charles Grey
- Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
- Sir Charles Edward Grey
- John Constable
- Thomas Lawrence
- Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
- George Cruikshank
- Thomas Gainsborough
- James Gillray
- Joseph Priestley
- William Whewell
- Horace Walpole
- Sir Anthony Carlisle
- Thomas Rowlandson
- William Blake
- Gerard Lake
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Sir Marc Brunel
- Marquis of Stafford Granville Leveson-Gower
- Marquis of Stafford George Leveson-Gower
- George Stephenson
- Thomas Telford
- Joseph Locke
- Paul III Anton, Prince Esterházy
- Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton
- John Nash
- John Soane
- Robert Smirke (architect)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Southey
- Henry Holland
- Sir Walter Scott
- John Scott, Earl of Eldon
- Lord Elgin
- William Windham
- William Cobbett
- Madame de Stael
- John Walker (inventor)(Natural Historian)(Lexicographer)
- James Boswell
- Edward James Eliot
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- George Harris, 3rd Baron
- Sir Harry Smith
- Thomas Cochrane
- Warren Hastings
- Edmund Burke
- William Petty
- Juana Maria de Los Dolores de Leon (Lady Smith)
- Lord Bedford, Francis Russell (1765-1802)
- Colonel George Hanger (c.1751-1824)
- Lord Hertford, Francis Seymour-Ingram (1743-1822)
- Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc de Chartres, acceded 1785 as Duc d’ Orleans (1747-1793)
- Louis Philippe, Duc de Chartres, acceded 1793 as Duc d’ Orleans (1773-1850)
- Captain John (Jack) Willett Payne (1752-1803)
- Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (1759-1801)
- John Bell
- Charles Fitzroy, Baron Southampton
- Richard Colley Wellesley
- Henry Wellesley
- James Wyatt
- John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere
- William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley
- Lord FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
- John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
- Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
- James Watt
- Henry Thrale
- John Hunter (Royal Navy)
- Joseph Pease
- Richard Trevithick
- James Foster
- Emily Lennox
- Louisa Lennox
- Thomas Baillie (Royal Navy officer)
- Charles James Napier
- John Thelwall
- Sir William Hotham
- Beaumont Hotham
- Matthew Boulton
- Sir Charles Bell
- James Gregory
- John McMahon
- Edward Maltby
- Joseph Chitty
- Ricahrd Barnewell
- Charles James Blomfield
- William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
- Maria Hadfield
- John Byng 1st Earl of Strafford
- George Byng 6th Viscount Torrington
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
- James Spencer-Bell
- George Brydges Rodney
- Samuel Pepys Cockerell
- John Linnell
- Charles Catton the Younger
- Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
- Benjamin Robert Haydon
- John Dalton
- Sir Philip Durham
- William Hasledine Pepys
- William Babington
- Joseph Lancaster
- Samuel Whitbread
- Francis Augustus Collier
- Humphry Davy
- George Shillibeer
- Samuel Hoare Jr.
- Thomas Moore
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
- Edward Dodwell
- Archibald Norman McLeod
- George Vancouver
- Sir George Simpson
- William Morgan (actuary)
- Harry Walker
- Alexander Walker
- George Templer
- Thomas Landseer
- Sir Robert Inglis
- Frederick Richard Lee
- William McGillivray
- Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
- John Vaughan 3rd Earl of Lisburne
- Samuel Rogers
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Edward Troughton
- John Richardson
- John Forsyth
- Edward Ellice
- John MacDonald of Garth
- Sir Archibald Campbell
- Simon McGillivray
- Maria Theresa Kemble
- Thomas Muir of Huntershill
- Thomas Fyshe Palmer
- Maurice Margarot
- Captain William Paget
- Sir Arthur Paget
- Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget
- Charles Burney
- Lord Frederick Beauclerk
- William Fullarton
- Francis Jeffrey
- Charles Simeon
- Thomas de Quincey
- James Watson
- Daniel O’Connell
- Feargus O’Connor
- Joseph Nollekens
- Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
- Andrew Geddes
- Andrew Combe
- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
- Isaac Taylor
- William Ellis
- William A. F. Browne
- Robert William Elliston
- William Henry Murray
- Daniel Terry
- William Oxberry
- Joanna Baillie
- Theodore Hook
- Robert Scott Lauder
- Chauncey Hare Townshend
- Paul Sandby
- William Heberden the Younger
- Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
- Richard Hurd
- George Mudie
- Abel Heywood
- John Cleave
- George Holyoake
- Charles Poulett Thomson
- William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle
- Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester
- John Rennie
- George Rennie
- Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- Frederick Hervey
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
- Sir Augustus William James Clifford
- Charles Murray
- George Lamb (politician and Writer)
- William Hornby
- Dr William Pulteney Alison
- Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet
- Francis Baring
- Thomas Rees
- Robert Aspland
- John Jones
- Sir James Edward Smith
- John Evans
- Thomas Jervis
- Olivia Serres
- Derwent Coleridge
- Maurice Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge
- Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley
- Grantley Berkeley
- Craven Berkeley
- George Cranfield-Berkeley
- Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet
- Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington
- Richard Payne Knight
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Thomas Girtin
- Thomas Monro
- George Dance the Younger
- William Daniell
- Henry Monro
- Henry Hunt
- William Hone
- James Wilson
- Robert Taylor (Radical)
- Benjamin West
- Joseph Farington
- William Roscoe
- William Danby
The Dukes
- Duke of Norfolk, Charles Howard (1746-1815)
- Duke of Norfolk, Bernard Edward Howard (1765-1842)
- Duke of Norfolk, Henry Charles Howard (1791-1856)
- Duke of Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour (1804-1885)
- Duke of Argyll, George William Campbell (1766-1839)
- Duke of Queensberry, William Douglas (1724-1810)
- Duke of York , Frederick Augustus Hanover (1763-1827)
- Duke of Grafton, Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke 1735-1811
- Duke of Grafton, George FitzRoy, 4th Duke 1760-1844
- Duke of Gordon, Alexander 4th Duke 1743-1827
The Royals
- Ernest Augustus 1 of Hanover
The Dandy Club
- Beau Brummell
- William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley
Patronesses of Almacks
- Emily Lamb, Lady Cowper
- Amelia Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh
- Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey
- Maria Molyneux, Countess of Sefton
- Dorothea Lieven, Countess de Lieven, wife of the Russian Ambassador
- Countess Esterhazy, wife of the Austrian Ambassador
If there are any requests for personalities to be added to the list, just let us know in the comments section
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