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Born	December 25, 1771 • Cockermouth • England
Died	January 25, 1855 (aged 83) • Westmorland • England

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Frances Burney

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Thomas Creevey

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Evelyn Waugh

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Henry Crabb Robinson

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George Grossmith

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Bruce Frederick Cummings

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Samuel Pepys

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James Boswell

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George Fox

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Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648

John Evelyn

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Fanny Kemble

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Sir Harold Nicolson

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Isaac Casaubon

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Simon Gray

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Elizabeth Mavor

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Samuel Sewall

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James Agate

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Charles Colling

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Sidney Colvin

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