Edward Perry Warren

male, deceased (1928)
Harvard University, tate gallery, adam and eve, Harvard, east sussex, American…BritishMuseum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edward Perry Warren, known as Ned Warren, was an American art collector, and a writer of works proposing an idealised view of homosexual...
Sharon Turner

Sharon Turner

male, deceased (1847)
Anglican, Sydney Turner, William Ellis, French consulate, Pentonville, Elizabeth I…BritishMuseum
Sharon Turner (September 24, 1768 - February 13, 1847) was a historian. Born in Pentonville, Turner was the eldest son of William and Ann Turner,...

Alfred W. Pollard

male, deceased (1944)
Employee of the British Museum, Le Morte d'Arthur, BritishMuseum, University of London, The library, bibliography…British
Alfred William Pollard (1859 - March 8, 1944) was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the...
John Gerard

John Gerard

male, deceased (1612)
Willaston, Crewe and Nantwich, Matthiolus, tudor, garden, surgeon, linnaeus…BritishMuseum
John Gerard (Nantwich, 1545 - February, 1611/12 in London) was an English botanist famous for his herbal garden. After being educated in Willaston...
Samuel Birch

Samuel Birch

male, deceased (1885)
Egyptian, Philologist, pottery, egyptologist, assyrian, antiquary…BritishMuseum
Samuel Birch (November 3, 1813 - December 27, 1885), English Egyptologist and antiquary, was the son of the rector of St Mary Woolnoth, London....

Frederic Madden

male, deceased (1873)
German, French, Philologist, shakespeare, orthography, BritishMuseum
Sir Frederic Madden (February 16, 1801 - March 8, 1873), was an English palaeographer. The son of an officer of Irish extraction, he was born at...

Ahmes

male
mathematician, Egyptian mathematics, Egyptian, ahmose, Reisner Papyrus, Egyptian fractions…BritishMuseum
Ahmes (more accurately "Ahmose") was an Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period. A surviving work of Ahmes is part of the...
David Garnett

David Garnett

male, deceased (1981)
novelist, Angelica Bell, Francis Birrell, Frances Partridge, Nonesuch Press, Andrew Lloyd-Webber…BritishMuseum, British
David Garnett was a British writer and publisher, and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group. He was born March 9, 1892 in Brighton, England,...
Thomas Grenville

Thomas Grenville

male, deceased (1846)
William Wyndham Grenville, william, piccadilly, privy council, Lord of the Admiralty, ensign…BritishMuseum, Child of the British Prime Minister
Thomas Grenville (31 December 1755 - 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile. Grenville was the son of George Grenville, a...
Francis Douce

Francis Douce

male, deceased (1834)
Non-fiction writer, antiquary, English, BritishMuseum, Illustrations of Shakespeare, The Dance of Death
Francis Douce (1757 - 1834), antiquary, born in London, was for some time employed at the British Museum. He published "Illustrations of...