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Born October 14, 1891 • London • England
Died December 14, 1975 (aged 84) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study animal • cell • movement
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Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Israel Abrahams
British scholar
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
British economist and journalist
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
British newspaper editor and proprietor
Ford Madox Ford
English author and editor
Churchill, Jennie Jerome
Jennie Jerome Churchill
British socialite and writer
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William Gifford, detail of an oil painting by John Hoppner (1758–1810); in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Gifford
British editor and scholar
Alice Meynell, c. 1890.
Alice Meynell
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Flower, 1883
Sir William Henry Flower
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Sir Norman Angell, c. 1925.
Sir Norman Angell
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Sir George Grove
Sir George Grove
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