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William Edward Armytage Axon

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He was a librarian and antiquary, and a journalist for Manchester Guardian.

John Aikin

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He was an English doctor and writer.

Masaharu Anesaki

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He is credited as being the father of religious studies in Japan.

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Robert Stawell Ball

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He was astronomer who founded the screw theory.

Horatio Bridge

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He was an officer of the United States Navy.

Isabella Varley Banks

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She was a 19th-century writer of English poetry and novels, born in Manchester.

Germain Bazin

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He was an art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum.

Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique

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She was curator at the Cabinet des Dessins du Louvre.

Samuel Beal

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He was an Oriental scholar.

Auguste Bailly

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He was a French writer.

Benjamin Brierley

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He was an English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect.

Johann Georg Bühler

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He was a scholar of ancient Indian languages and law.

Thomas Baines

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For thirty years was an active promoter of liberal interests in Lancashire.

John Bunyan

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He became a target for slander and libel.

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Nathan Salomon Calisch

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He was journalist and secretary of the Stock Exchange

Isaac Marcus Calisch

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He was head teacher and translator.

Paul Cohen-Portheim

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He was a German author and translator.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

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He was a poet who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry.

Marie Corelli

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Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries.

Thomas Carlyle

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Expected to become a preacher, he lost his Christian faith at University.

Joseph Conrad

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He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English.

Edward Caswall

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He was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer who converted to Roman Catholicism.

Neville Cardus

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Turned cricket into vivid description and criticism.

Leslie Charteris

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Best known for his books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar.

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Billy Drake

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He was a British air ace.

Bert Davis

Henry Drummond

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He was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.

Sukumar Dutt

Gaston Dubois-Desaulle

Arthur J. Dobb

Charles Dickens

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He is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

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Friedrich Engels

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He was indebted to German philosophy.

Les Edwards

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A British illustrator.

Rudolf Cristoph Eucken

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Philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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John William Fletcher

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He was Methodism's first great theologians.

Asher Feldman

David K. Frasier

John Nicol Farquhar

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He was a professor of comparative religion.

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Robert Graves

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He was an English poet, novelist, critic, and classicist.

Milton Glaser

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He is an American graphic designer.

Oliver Goldsmith

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He planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship.

Melville Bell Grosvenor

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He campaigned to save the California redwoods before conservation became a popular cause.

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Bret Harte

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Best known for his fiction featuring miners, gamblers of the California Gold Rush.

Charles Hamilton

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He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime.

Arthur Rowland Howell

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Antoine Hamilton

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He interchanged amusing verses with the Duke of Berwick.

Richard Harris Barham

Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann

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He lived a retired life of study, while suffering great pain.

Dezo Hoffmann

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He earned international acclaim shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz personalities.

Thomas Humphry Ward

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Author and journalist, most notable as the husband of Mrs Humphry Ward.

Thomas Hardy

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He focused more on a declining rural society.

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Charles Alexander Johns

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E. J. Kollist

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He was a chef pâtissier

Rudyard Kipling

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He is remembered for his tales for children.

Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern

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He continued work after his retirement.

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John Gibson Lockhart

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He was a Scottish writer and editor.

William Lees

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He was a lecturer.

Arthur Lillie

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He was a soldier in the British Army in India.

Oliver Lodge

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Lodge is known for his advocacy and elaboration of Maxwell's aether theory.

James Legge

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He was third and final editor of the Chinese Serial.

Wilmot Lunt

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He was a cartoonist and painter.

Brian Lumley

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He wrote stories in his spare time.

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Paul Marcoy

H.V. Marrot

William McDougall

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He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks.

Karl Marx

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Described as one of the most influential figures in human history.

William Percival Matthew

Monier Monier-Williams

John Arnott MacCulloch

Emily Jane Moore

John Murphy

Samuel Maunder

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Alan Alexander Milne

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A noted writer, primarily as a playwright.

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Harold Nicolson

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Author, diarist and politician.

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Richard Phillips

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He was a distinguished British chemist.

Jean Porcher

Frank Plucknett

Morton Prince

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He was a leading force in establishing psychology as academic discipline.

Jal Dastur Cursetji Pavry

Archibald Philip Primrose

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He was the first to coin the term the Commonwealth of Nations.

Preston Albert Lambert

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John Roscoe

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He conducted anthropological data collection of the Africans he encountered on mission.

John Roby

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He called himself simply a collector of oral traditions.

Thomas William Rhys Davids

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He claimed that Britons had a natural, "racial" affinity with Buddhist doctrine.

Robert William Rogers

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Albert Skira

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He was a Swiss publisher.

William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

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He wrote on Australian life and literature.

George Bernard Shaw

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Awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar.

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz

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He is best remembered for his historical novels.

Clifford Saber

Ernest Howard Shepard

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He grew to resent "that silly old bear".

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

Walter Scott

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He truly had international career in his lifetime.

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Frederick Treves

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He was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras

Mary Tourtel

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She was an English artist and creator of Rupert Bear.

Peter P. Tang

Whiteley Turner

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He was a mill worker, shopkeeper and author.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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He wrote papers with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts.

Paul Topinard

Hermann Türck

Leo Tolstoy

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Considered one of the world's greatest novelists.

Jerrard Tickell

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A writer, known for his novels and World War II historical books.

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William Swan Urquhart

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Brian Vesey Fitzgerald

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He was a naturalist and writer of books on wildlife, cats, and dogs.

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Walt Whitman

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He was a poet, essayist, journalist and humanist.

Alfred Russel Wallace

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Independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection.

V. H. Watson

John Dover Wilson

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He has considerable boldness and confidence in his own judgement.