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Born March 28, 1787 • Dijon • France
Died October 5, 1821 (aged 34) • Shīrāz • Iran
Hormuzd Rassam
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Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Robert Koldewey
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Robert Clive
Robert Clive
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Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Warren Hastings
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William Adams
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Sir John Hubert Marshall
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Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Stringer Lawrence
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Charles T. Metcalfe
Charles T. Metcalfe
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Sir Alexander Cunningham
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Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet
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Job Charnock
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Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
British banker, politician, and naturalist
Sir Thomas Smythe
British entrepreneur
Sir John Child, Baronet
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Thomas Pitt, detail of a print after an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Thomas Pitt
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Fellows, pencil and chalk drawing by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Charles Fellows
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Percy Gardner
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Sir James Lancaster
English merchant
Ronald Montagu Burrows
British archaeologist