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Also Known As Lord George
Born December 23, 1825 • Newbury • England
Died November 28, 1911 (aged 85) • Middlesex • England

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Astley's Amphitheatre: origins of the modern circus
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Bertram Mills
British circus entrepreneur
Philip Astley, engraving by J. Smith.
Philip Astley
British circus manager
Ducrow, engraving by T.C. Wageman
Andrew Ducrow
British equestrian
John Sanger
British circus impresario
Guy Laliberté
Canadian performer and entrepreneur
Franconi, detail of an engraving by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, after a painting by C. Vernet
Antonio Franconi
Italian circus impresario
James A. Bailey
American circus impresario
W.C. Coup
American circus manager
Gilbert R. Spaulding
American circus impresario
William Hunter Kendal
British actor and manager
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Florence Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury
British industrialist and politician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
John Birt, Baron Birt
British businessman
Margaret Burbidge
British astronomer
Sir William Davenant
English writer