- Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 - 6 October 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom; William Ewart Gladstone described him as the most remarkable person he had ever met. A future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, … - Victoria Of The United Kingdom
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. Her reign lasted sixty-three years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch. In general, the period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. The Victorian era was at the height of the Industrial Revolution, … - Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (born with the name Edward George de Valera,) (14 October, 1882 - 29 August, 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. Co-owner of one of the Irish Press Newspapers, he served in public office from 1917 to 1973, holding the various Irish prime ministerial and presidential offices. - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister - the first and thus far only person of Jewish parentage to do so (although Disraeli was baptised in the Anglican Church at 13). - William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). He was a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli. The English statesman was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career. - George III of the United Kingdom
George III (New Style dates) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and thus Elector (and later King) of Hanover. The Electorate became the Kingdom of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, … - William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (1860-1940) was a Scottish classical composer. Born in Greenock, he studied medicine in Glasgow, Vienna and Paris before deciding to study music at the Royal Academy in London in 1889. Wallace was greatly influenced by Liszt, and introduced the symphonic poem to Britain. His compositions include the symphonic poem, "Sir William Wallace" (1905; based on his namesake, the freedom fighter William Wallace, one of Scotland’s national heroes), … - Andrew Bonar
Andrew Alexander Bonar, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland; born Edinburgh May 29, 1810, youngest brother of Horatius Bonar; died Glasgow December 30, 1892. He studied at Edinburgh; was minister at Collace, Perthshire, 1838 - 1856 (both in the Church of Scotland and the Free Church); and of Finnieston Free Church, Glasgow, 1856 till his death. He joined the Free Church in 1843, and was its moderator in 1878. - John George
John Phelps George was a British athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. George won the second heat of the 100 metres with a time of 11 <sup>3<;/sup><sub>5</sub> seconds, advancing to the semifinals. In the fourth semifinal, George placed last to drop out of further contention. He also won his heat of the 200 metres, advancing to the semifinals with a time of 23.4 seconds. - George IV of the United Kingdom
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 - 26 June 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death. He had earlier served as The Prince Regent when his father, George III, suffered from a relapse into insanity from an illness that is now suspected to have been porphyria. The Regency, George's nine-year tenure as Prince Regent, … - Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the first man to be given official use of the title 'Prime Minister'. Known as CB, he was a firm believer in free trade, Irish Home Rule and the improvement of social conditions. The son of the Lord Provost of Glasgow, he was educated at Glasgow High School and at Glasgow and Cambridge universities. - Black Hawk
Black Hawk or Black Sparrow Hawk (Sauk Makataimeshekiakiak, "be a large black hawk") (1767-October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe in what is now the United States. While he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not a hereditary civil chief of the Sauk. He was, however, appointed a war chief, and was generally known in English as Chief Black Hawk. - John Bright
John Bright (November 16, 1811 - March 27, 1889), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy. - Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden (June 3, 1804 - April 2, 1865) was a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. - John Taylor
John Baxter Taylor, Jr. (November 11, 1882 - December 2 1908) was an American track and field athlete. Taylor was a member of the gold medal medley relay team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. He ran the third leg, performing the 400 metres. He followed William F. Hamilton and Nathaniel Cartmell and was followed by Mel Sheppard. In both the first round and the final, Taylor received a lead from Cartmell and passed one on to Sheppard. - E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel "Howards End": "Only connect." Forster was homosexual, … - Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764 - 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. - Henry Fitzroy
Henry Fitzroy (2 May 1807-17 December 1859) was a British politician of the mid-nineteenth century. - William Wyndham Grenville 1st Baron Grenville
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. Grenville studied at Eton, Christ Church, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn. The son of Prime Minister George Grenville, he entered the House of Commons in 1782 where his elder brother, Thomas, was already sitting as an M.P.. Grenville soon became a close ally of the prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, … - John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 - January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in Cambridge. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. At the same time, but unknown to each other, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le Verrier. - John Devoy
John Devoy (1842-1928) was an Irish rebel leader and exile. Devoy was born near Kill, County Kildare. In 1861 he travelled to France with an introduction from T. D. Sullivan to John Mitchel. Devoy joined the French Foreign Legion and served in Algeria for a year before returning to Ireland to become a Fenian organiser in Naas, County Kildare. In 1865, when many Fenian leaders were arrested, James Stephens, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), … - George Marshall
George Marshall was a British athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Marshall ran in the 100 metres, finishing last of five runners in his preliminary heat and not advancing to the final. He also competed in the 800 metres, again finishing in last place of the four runners in his preliminary heat. - Boutros Ghali
Boutros Ghali ; (Born 1846 - February 20, 1910) was a Coptic Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident and on February 20, 1910, Ghali was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the United Kingdom. His grandson Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was named after him, … - James Blundell
James Blundell British obstetrician who performed the first successful transfusion of blood to a patient for treatment of a hemorrhage. Blundell was born in London, England to Major Blundell and Sarah Ann Haighton. Major was the owner of Major Blundell and Co. Haberdashers and Drapers in London. He descended from the prominent Blundell family of landowners in Lancashire, their main residence being situated at Ince Blundell. - Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the only husband of a British queen regnant to have formally held the title of Prince Consort. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha succeeded the House of Hanover on the British throne. - Charles George Gordon
Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa. - Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC (18 June 1769 in Dublin - 12 August 1822 at Loring Hall, Kent), known until 1821 by his courtesy title of Viscount Castlereagh, was an Anglo-Irish politician who represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna. He was also intimately involved in securing the passage of the controversial Irish Act of Union. - Thomas Holloway
Thomas Holloway was a patent medicine vendor and philanthropist from England. Holloway was born in Devonport, Devon, in 1800. He was the elder son of Thomas and Mary Holloway (née Chellew), who at the time of their son's birth had a bakery business in Devonport. They later moved to Penzance, Cornwall, where they ran the Turk's Head Inn. In the late 1820s, Holloway went to live in Roubaix, France, for a few years. - Gerald Haxton
Frederick Gerald Haxton (1892 - 1944) a native of San Francisco was the long term secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham. He and Maugham met at the outbreak of World War I when they both began serving from 1914 as part of the Red Cross ambulance unit in Flanders, France. Maugham and to a lesser extent Haxton had been affected by the trial of Oscar Wilde. - Alexander Campbell
Alexander Campbell (September 12, 1788 - March 4, 1866) was an early leader of a movement that began in 1800 with the goal of removing divisions between Christians, by returning believers in the New Testament to principles of "Truth and Union." This movement has since been called the Restoration Movement or the Stone-Campbell Movement. Campbell was born near Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. He was raised as a Presbyterian, and was the son of a Presbyterian minister, … - John Murphy
John 'Curtis' Murphy was an Irish sportsperson in the 1880s and 1890s who played hurling with the famous Blackrock club. Born in Cork Murphy first tasted success in 1887 when ‘the Rockies’ won the very first Cork Senior Hurling Championship, however, due to a dispute Blackrock were denied the chance to represent Cork in the very first All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Two years later in 1889 Murphy captured two more county titles in 1889 and 1891, however, … - William Murray
William Murray was a British athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. In the 100 metres, Murray took fourth place in his first round heat to be eliminated without advancing to the semifinals. - Henry Procter
Henry Procter or Proctor ("c." 1763 - 31 October 1822) was a British Major-General who served in Canada during the War of 1812. Henry Proctor was viewed as a kind but gentle soul by some and seen as an inept leader who relied too heavily on textbook procedure by others. His reliance on textbook battlefield procedure can be attributed to his lack of prior combat experience. Although there is a widespread notion that Procter was from Wales, … - Henry Cole
Sir Henry Cole was a civil servant who facilitated many innovations in commerce and education in 19th century Britain. - Sidney Smith
Sidney Smith (October 16 1823 - September 27 1889) was a lawyer and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Port Hope, Upper Canada in 1823, the son of John David Smith. He studied law with his brother, John Shuter, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and set up practice in Cobourg. He served on the municipal council for Cobourg and Hamilton Township and served as warden for Northumberland and Durham counties. - John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 - August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. - Attorney General Of Ireland
The Attorney General is a constitutional officer who is the official adviser to the Irish Government in matters of law. He is in effect the chief law officer in the Republic of Ireland. The Attorney General is not a member of the Government but does participate in cabinet meetings when invited and attends government meetings. As the Attorney General advises the Government on the constitutionality of bills and treaties, … - James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, in contrast to his combative public persona. - Viggo Jensen
Alexander Viggo Jensen (June 22, 1874 - November 2, 1930) was a Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast, and athlete. He was the first Danish Olympic champion, at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. The first weightlifting event held was the two-handed lift, in a style now known as the clean and jerk. Jensen and Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Ireland finished the competition tied at 111.5 kilograms, … - Carl Schuhmann
Carl Schuhmann (12 May 1869 - 24 March 1946) was a German athlete, who was born in Berlin and won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He also competed in weightlifting. Schuhmann, who was a member of the Berliner Turnerschaft, was a member of the successful German gymnastics team that won the team events in the horizontal bar and parallel bars events. Schuhmann added a third title by winning the horse vault event.
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