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Born November 16, 1754 • Ireland
Died October 6, 1836 (aged 81) • Herefordshire • England
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Raja Ali Haji bin Raja Amhad
Bugis-Malay prince, historian, and scholar
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
British colonial administrator
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner
British historian
E.P. Thompson
British historian
Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
British historian
J.B. Bury
British scholar
James Anthony Froude
British historian
Sir Eyre Coote
British soldier
Bryce, James
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
J.F.C. Fuller
J.F.C. Fuller
British army officer
Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
Cistercian monk
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
British military historian
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
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Childe, V. Gordon
V. Gordon Childe
British historian and archaeologist
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, oil painting by George Willison, 1777; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Pigot, Baron Pigot
British colonial official
A.N. Wilson
English writer
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, sepia drawing by George Frederick Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet
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