Robin Flower

Robin Flower

male, deceased (1946)
The Western Island, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, Celtic Studies, celticist, Blasket Islands, BritishMuseum
Robin Ernest William Flower (1881 - 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist and translator from the Irish language. He was born in...
Reginald Stuart Poole

Reginald Stuart Poole

male, deceased (1895)
Archaeologist, Egyptian, Orientalist, Royal Academy, English, BritishMuseum
Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January, 1832-8 February, 1895) was an English archaeologist and orientalist. Born in London, he was the son of the Rev....
Richard Bowdler Sharpe

Richard Bowdler Sharpe

male, deceased (1909)
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Employee of the Natural History Museum, pneumonia, zoological society, English, loughborough…BritishMuseum, Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, British Ornithologists' Club
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 - 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist. Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton,...
Thomas Birch

Thomas Birch

male, deceased (1766)
death by horse-riding accident, From London, Accidental death, historian, horse, horace walpole…BritishMuseum, British Whig Party
Thomas Birch, English historian, son of Joseph Birch, a coffee-mill maker, was born at Clerkenwell. He preferred study to business, but as his...
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

male, deceased (1915)
From Orleans, carpenter, sculptor, Cubism, World War I, rodin…Victoria and Albert Museum, BritishMuseum
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French sculptor who developed a rough hewn, primitive style of direct carving. Henri Gaudier was born in St. Jean de...
Robert Hay

Robert Hay

male, deceased (1863)
Alexandria, Sailor, Scottish, Travel writer, malta, crete…British Library, BritishMuseum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Robert Hay (6 January, 1799 - 1863) was a Scottish traveller, antiquarian, and early Egyptologist. He was born in Duns Castle, Berwickshire. During...
Nicolas Lancret

Nicolas Lancret

male, deceased (1743)
painter, French painter, French, watteau, National Gallery, London, BritishMuseum
Nicolas Lancret (January 22, 1690 - September 14, 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which...

Menkheperre

male
thutmose iii, Prince, ancient egyptian, hui, Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, BritishMuseum
Menkheperre was a prince of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, one of two known sons of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife...

George Thomason

male, deceased (1666)
English Civil War, plot, Bishop of Lincoln, University of Oxford, cavalier, British Library…BritishMuseum
George Thomason (d. April 1666), English book and tract collector. George Thomason was a London bookseller, whose life contains few items of...
Isaac Oliver

Isaac Oliver

male, deceased (1617)
Portrait miniaturists, tudor, miniature painting, From Rouen, BritishMuseum, Elizabeth I
Isaac Oliver (c.1565 - bur.October 2, 1617) was a French-born English portrait miniature painter. Born in Rouen, he moved to London in 1568 with...