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George Grote
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Born November 17, 1794 • England
Died June 18, 1871 (aged 76) • London • England
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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1st Baron Acton of Aldenham, oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
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James Anthony Froude
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Hilaire Belloc
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Richard Henry Tawney
British economist
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Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
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R.G. Collingwood
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William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
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