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
- Granville Sharp
- Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry
- William Paley
- James Hutton
- John Boydell
- Viscount Robert Castlereagh
- George Canning
- James Stirling
- John MacBride (professor)
- William Waldegrave
- John Thomas Duckworth
- David Dundas
- Sir Hyde Parker
- Sir Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Hardy (Reformer)
- Sir William Parker
- William Cornwallis
- Charles Cornwallis
- George Colman the Younger
- Robert Emmet
- Thomas Fortescue Kennedy
- William Taylor of Norwich
- Sir John Herschel
- John Horne Tooke
- Robert Owen
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Stuart Mill
- Thomas Cochrane
- Claire Clairmont
- Fanny Imlay
- Gilbert Imlay
- William Godwin
- William Hazlitt
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- James Edward Smith
- Harriet Fane Arbuthnot
- John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
- James Edwards (Bookseller)
- Sir Joseph Banks
- James Smithson
- William Cowper
- Wellington (the Military man)
- Cuthbert Collingwood
- Sydney Smith
- Admiral Sir William Sydney Smith
- Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke
- William Howe
- Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe
- Viscount Sir Samuel Hood
- Sir Samuel Hood
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- General Banastre Tarleton
- Sir Charles Grey
- John Constable
- Thomas Lawrence
- Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
- George Cruikshank
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Joseph Priestley
- Horace Walpole
- Thomas Rowlandson
- William Blake
- Henry Maudslay
- Joseph Bramah
- Marquis of Stafford George Leveson-Gower
- George Stephenson
- Joseph Locke
- Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton
- John Nash
- John Soane
- Robert Smirke (architect)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Southey
- 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
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- Sir Harry Smith
- Thomas Cochrane
- Warren Hastings
- Edmund Burke
- William Petty
- Juana Maria de Los Dolores de Leon (Lady Smith)
- 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)
- John Bell
- Henry Wellesley
- James Wyatt
- John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere
- William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley
- Lord FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
- Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
- James Watt
- John Hunter (Royal Navy)
- Joseph Pease
- Richard Trevithick
- Louisa Lennox
- Thomas Baillie (Royal Navy officer)
- Charles James Napier
- Matthew Boulton
- Sir Charles Bell
- James Gregory
- William Gregory
- Richard Barnewell
- Charles James Blomfield
- William Carr Beresford 1st Viscount Beresford
- Maria Hadfield
- George Byng 6th Viscount Torrington
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
- John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
- George Brydges Rodney
- Samuel Pepys Cockerell
- John Linnell
- Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
- Benjamin Robert Haydon
- John Dalton
- Sir Philip Durham
- William Hasledine Pepys
- Joseph Lancaster
- Samuel Whitbread
- Francis Augustus Collier
- Humphry Davy
- George Shillibeer
- Samuel Hoare Jr.
- Thomas Moore
- 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
- Edward Ellice
- John MacDonald of Garth
- Sir Archibald Campbell
- Maria Theresa Kemble
- Thomas Muir of Huntershill
- Thomas Fyshe Palmer
- Maurice Margarot
- Captain William Paget
- Sir Arthur Paget
- Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget
- E.A. Burney
- Charles Burney
- Lord Frederick Beauclerk
- William Fullarton
- Francis Jeffrey
- Charles Simeon
- Sir John Simeon
- Thomas de Quincey
- James Watson
- Daniel O’Connell
- Feargus O’Connor
- Joseph Nollekens
- Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
- Andrew Geddes
- Andrew Combe
- Abram Combe
- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
- William Ellis
- William A. F. Browne
- Robert William Elliston
- William Henry Murray
- Daniel Terry
- Joanna Baillie
- Theodore Hook
- Robert Scott Lauder
- Chauncey Hare Townshend
- Paul Sandby
- William Heberden the Younger
- Henry Paget 1st Earl of Uxbridge
- Richard Hurd
- Abel Heywood
- George Holyoake
- Charles Poulett Thomson
- William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle
- Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester
- George Rennie
- Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- Frederick Hervey
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
- Sir Augustus William James Clifford
- George Lamb (politician and Writer)
- Francis Baring
- Thomas Rees
- John Jones
- Sir James Edward Smith
- John Evans
- Thomas Jervis
- 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
- 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
- William Roscoe
- Thomas Harrison (architect)
- John Rennie the Younger
- Sir Samuel Bentham
- Thomas John Dibdin
- George Soane
- John Emery (English Actor)
- Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin
- Lawrence Holme Twentyman
- Mary Ann Gibbon
- Matthew Howard-Gibbon
- Sir William Woods
- Patrick Tytler
- Robert Scott Lauder
- Isaac Taylor of Ongar
- Josiah Conder
- Jacob Rey
- John Foster
- Olinthus Gilbert Gregory
- Jane Taylor
- John Wilson (Scottish writer)
- Sir James Stephens
- Ann Taylor (poet)
- John Eyre
- Thomas Noon Talfourd
- Thomas Southwood Smith
- Neil Arnott
- James Kay-Shuttleworth
- William Johnson Fox
- Nassau William Senior
- Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
- Walter Wilson
- William James Erasmus Wilson
- Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet
- Laura Pulteney 1st Countess of Bath
- William Jessop
- Thomas Campbell
- Phillip Hardwick
- Charles Harcourt Masters
- Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet
- Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort
- George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
- John Home
- Frederick Edward Jones
- John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
- William Stuart
- Lady Louisa Stuart
- James Lowther
- Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
- Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
- Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney
- Walter Savage Landor
- Sir George Staunton
- William Gilpin
- Henry Trollope
- Henry Havelock
- Nicholas Carlisle
- William Nicholson
- Sir George Seymour
- Miles Atkinson
- William Dealtry
- Samuel Marsden
- Thomas Perronet Thompson
- Alexander Horn
- John Rylands
- John Ryland
- James Mackintosh
- Sir Richard Bickerton
- Robert Corbet
- Richard Cope (minister)
- William Wordsworth
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- William Lyttelton
- William Cunnington
- Francis Nicholson
- Geroge Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale
- James Anderson of Hermiston
- John Hookham Frere
- Henry Vassall-Fox
- George Richardson (Architect)
- William Chambers (Architect)
- James Stuart-Mackenzie
- William Legge
- George Cartwright
- Anthony James Pye Molloy
- James Gambier
- William Wingfield
- James Prinsep
- Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
- Sir Charles Knowles
- William Bligh
- Sophia Campbell (Palmer)
- Robert Campbell
- Francis Grose
- John Macarthur
- George Ellis
- John Gibson Lockhart
- William Stevens
- William Adam
- John Thomas Troy
- Sir Robert Dallas
- Thomas Hardwick
- Major-General Robert Craufurd
- Arthur Phillip
- Esther Abrahams
- William Paterson (explorer)
- Joseph Foveaux
- Henry Fulton
- Simon McTavish
- Colin Robertson
- William McMahon
- William Behnes
- Rowland Hill 1st Viscount Hill
- John Peter Gandy
- William Crotch
- Samuel Wesley
- Henry Vincent
- William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
- Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey
- John Henry Newman
- John Keble
- Sir William Molesworth 8th Baronet
- Samuel Pym
- Henry Lambert
- Nesbit Willoughby
- William Palmer
- William Innell Clement
- Henry John Rose
- John Austin (legal philosopher)
- Thomas Dunham Whitaker
- Adam Clarke
- Marchioness of Hertford, Maria Emilia Fagnani
- Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry
- Francis Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss
- Edward Thurlow
- Sir George Prevost
- Sir Isaac Brock
- John Thomas Bigge
- John Creighton 1st Earl Erne
- Dr. Robert Wardell
- James Dunlop
- Admiral Sir Charles Adam
- Catherine Wellesley Duchess of Wellington
- Robert Ross
- Henry Prittie 1st Baron Dunalley
- Henry Prittie 2nd Baron Dunalley
- Robert Cuninghame 1st Baron Rossmore
- Sir Sames Craig
- Henry Edward Fox
- Hudson Lowe
- John Clayton
- Samuel Horsley
- James Wilmot
- Henry Luttrell 2nd Earl of Carhampton
- Samuel Hood Linzee
- John Gore
- George Atwood
- Thomas Postlethwaite
- Stephen Weston (antiquary)
- Walter Whiter
- Joseph Robertson
- William Beloe
- Samuel Parr
- Joseph Goodall
- Gilbert Wakefield
- Robert Mann (Royal Navy Officer)
- William Otter
- Joseph Warton
- George Pretyman Tomline
- William Enfield
- Robert James Carr
- Henry Bathurst (bishop)
- William Turner (Unitarian minister)
- Edward Craggs-Eliot 1st Baron Eliot
- John Eliot Earl of St. Germans
- Alexander Abercromby
- Geroge Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby
- James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline
- Alexander Abercromby (British Army Officer)
- Robert Merry
- John Moore (physician)
- Sir Richard Hughes
- William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
- John Raphael Smith
- Daniel Asher Alexander
- Allan Cunningham
- Henry Weekes
- Sir Thomas Munro 1st Baronet
- Thomas Stothard
- Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath
- Albemarle Bertie
- John Charles Ramsden
- Charles Manners-Sutton
- Sir James Colebrooke 1st Baronet
- Sir Richard Westmacott
- Decimus Burton
- James Haliburton
- Joseph George Holman
- Hugh Palliser
- Thomas Louis
- Willoughby Thomas Lake
- Henry Hotham
- John Holloway
- Sir Richard Strachan
- Sir Isaac Coffin
- George Murray 5th Earl of Dunmore
- Edward Thornbrough
- William Salter (artist)
- Benjamin Hawes
- Charles Wetherell
- John Scott Russell
- William Horsley
- Henry Noel, 6th Earl of Gainsborough
- Charles Noel Noel 1st Earl of Gainsborough
The Dukes
- Duke of Norfolk, Bernard Edward Howard (1765-1842)
- Duke of Argyll, George William Campbell (1766-1839)
- 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
- Duke of Northumberland, Hugh Percy 1742-1817
- Duke of Northumberland, Geroge Percy 1778-1867
- Duke of Hamilton, Archibald Hamilton
- Duke of Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
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
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