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Also Known As Wyrtgeorn
Flourished 425 - 450
Role In Heptarchy
Aethelfrith
king of Bernicia and Deira
Oswiu
king of Northumbria
Oswald, Saint
Saint Oswald
king of Northumbria
Ceawlin
king of Wessex
Edwin
king of Northumbria
Raedwald
king of the East Angles
Aethelberht I
Aethelberht I
king of Kent
Aelle
Anglo-Saxon ruler [fl. 5th century]
Cadwallon
Welsh king of Gwynedd
Charles Bray
British manufacturer
Dorothea Beale
English educator
John Baxter
British printer
Isaac Cruikshank
British artist
Reggie Doherty
English tennis player
John Bartholomew
Scottish publisher [1805–1861]
Sir Charles Anthony Johnson Brooke
Sarawak raja
Laurie Doherty
English tennis player
Joy Batchelor
British director and animator
James Albery
British dramatist
Melanie Janine Brown
British entertainer

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