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Born March 12, 1626 • England
Died June 1697 (aged 71) • Oxford • England
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Anthony Wood
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John Nichols, engraving by Charles Heath after a portrait by J. Jackson
John Nichols
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English scholar
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
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Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
Izaak Walton, detail of an oil painting by Jacob Huysmans, c. 1675; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Izaak Walton
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Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648
John Evelyn
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James Anthony Froude
British historian
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue after a portrait by Paul van Somer
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet
English antiquarian
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
British historian
Sir Angus Wilson
British author
Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
English author