Other Figures
 

Renaissance         Restoration and 18th Century
 
 

Anglo-Saxon and Medieval
 

Alcuin (c. 735 - 804), scholar

Edward, Prince of Wales (1330 -1376), son of Edward III, 'The Black Prince'

Boethius (c.480 - c.525), author of Consolation of Philosophy

Duns Scotus (c.1270 - 1308), philosopher

Gildas (6th century), De Excidio Britanniae (On The Ruin of Britain)

Julius Caesar (102/100-44 BCE), emperor, writer

Pope Hadrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159), English pope
 
 

St. Augustine (d. 605), first Archibishop of Canterbury

William of Ockham (1280 - 1349), philosopher


 

Renaissance

Thomas Wolsey (1475-1530), Cardinal and statesman

William Tyndale (died 1536), Translator of the Bible

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (circa 1485-1540), statesman

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598), Lord High Treasurer

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), Reigned 1542-87

Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618), soldier, sailor, poet and writer

Richard Hooker (1554-1600), theologian

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), diplomat and poet

Inigo Jones (1573-1652), architect

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628); courtier, favourite of James I

Izaak Walton (1593-1683), author of The Compleat Angler

William Prynne (1600-1669), Puritan pamphleteer

Restoration and 18th Century


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), philosopher

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608-1670)

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), chemist

Sir William Temple (1628-1699), diplomat and writer

John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher

Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), architect and scientist

Thomas Betterton (1635-1710), actor and dramatist

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), mathematician

Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), portrait painter
 

James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch (1649-1685), son of Charles II by Lucy Walter

Titus Oates (1649-1705), informer

Nell Gwyn (1650-1687), actress; mistress of
Charles II

Jacob Tonson I (1655-1736), publisher and secretary of the Kit-cat Club

Henry Purcell (1659-1695), composer

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), Politician

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), Philosopher and writer on the fine arts (the one on the right)

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford (1676-1745), Prime Minister

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), statesman and writer

George Berkeley (1685-1753), philosopher; Bishop of Cloyne

Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), son of James II; 'The Old Pretender'

Ralph Allen (1694-1763)

John Wesley (1703-1791), Methodist leader

William Hogarth (1697-1764), painter and engraver

David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher and historian

George Whitefield (1714-1770), Methodist leader

David Garrick (1717-1779), actor, playwright and theatre manager

Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), grandson of James II; 'Bonnie Prince Charlie"

Adam Smith (1723-1790), political economist
 

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), portrait and landscape painter

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), historian

William Pitt (1759-1806), Prime Minister

John Constable (1776-1837), landscape painter


 
 

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