William Wright

male, deceased (1889)
Orientalist, University of Cambridge, BritishLibrary, Syriacists, Short history of Syriac literature
William Wright (17 January 1830 - 22 May 1889) was a famous British Orientalist, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Many of...
T C Skeat

T C Skeat

male, deceased (2003)
librarian, British, BritishLibrary, Codex Sinaiticus, Theodore Cressy Skeat, Egerton 2 Papyrus
Theodore Cressy Skeat (15 February 1907 - 25 June 2003) was Librarian at the British Library, where he worked as Assistant Keeper (from 1931),...
Chris Mole

Chris Mole

male, 51 years old
Old Alleynian, Connect, British MP, Labour MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary, private member's bill…BritishLibrary
Christopher David Mole, known as Chris Mole, (born March 16, 1958, Bromley) is the current member of Parliament for Ipswich in eastern England, and...

William Anderson

male, deceased (1900)
Pictorial arts of Japan, St Thomas's Hospital, royal college of surgeon, Old Citizen, City of London School, Royal Academy…BritishLibrary
William Anderson FRCS (18 December 1842 - 27 0ctober 1900), was a Scottish surgeon, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an...
Simon Forman

Simon Forman

male, deceased (1611)
tudor, From wiltshire, University of Oxford, bodleian library, Astrology, magdalen college…BritishLibrary
Simon Forman (December 30, 1552 - September, 1611) was a prominent English Elizabethan occultist, astrologist and herbalist active in London. He...
Colin MacKenzie

Colin MacKenzie

male, deceased (1821)
Scottish India scholar, British East India Company Army officer, logarithm, Biographer, Scottish, maharaja…British Indian Army officer, British East India Company, BritishLibrary, British Museum
Colonel Colin Mackenzie was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides,...
Luigi Rossi

Luigi Rossi

male, deceased (1653)
Santa Casa dell’Annunziata, Italian opera composer, Spanish viceroy, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Christ Church Library, Il Palazzo Incantato…BritishLibrary
Luigi Rossi was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an...
Eric Partridge

Eric Partridge

male, deceased (1979)
Etymologist, University of Oxford, World War I, university of queensland, British, Non-fiction writer…BritishLibrary
Eric Honeywood Partridge was a noted New Zealand/British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. Partridge was born near...
Roger Lancelyn Green

Roger Lancelyn Green

male, deceased (1987)
Tales of the Greek Hero, Alumni of Merton College, Oxford, university of liverpool, ancient greece, children's writer, Robin Hood…BritishLibrary
Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. Lancelyn Green studied under C. S. Lewis at Merton College, Oxford,...
Narcissus Luttrell

Narcissus Luttrell

male, deceased (1732)
historian, member of parliament, British, cornish, Diarist, Bibliographer…BritishLibrary
Narcissus Luttrell was an English historian, diarist, and bibliographer, and briefly Member of Parliament for two different Cornish towns...