George Wilcken Romney was chairman of the American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962 and was elected three times as the Republican Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. He was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, losing to Richard Nixon. He is also the father of Republican Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

George Romney (December 26, 1734 - November 15, 1802) was a noted English portrait painter. He was born on Boxing Day 1734 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, and apprenticed to his father as a cabinet-maker. In 1755 he went to Kendal to learn painting from a Cumberland artist by the name of Christopher Steele, and within two years was becoming well-known as a portraitist. He fell ill during his apprenticeship and was nursed back to health by Mary Abbott, …

George Romney was an early favorite after launching his campaign from the family's summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Then, during an interview shortly after he visited Vietnam, he expressed frustration with the increasingly unpopular war and with the generals he felt were misleading the public. "I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get," George Romney told a television reporter.

George Scott Romney was appointed to the Board of Trustees in August 2000 and was elected to serve an eight-year term on in November 2000. He is a partner and member of the board of directors of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in Detroit, and is a member of the board of Compuware Corporation. He is active in numerous organizations including Hospice of Michigan and Convergence Transportation Electronics Association.

William Hayley (November 9, 1745 - November 12, 1820), was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper. Born at Chichester, he was sent to Eton in 1757, and to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1763; his connection with the Middle Temple, London, where he was admitted in 1766, was merely nominal. In 1767 he left Cambridge and went to live in London. Two years later he married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Ball, dean of Chichester.

John Flaxman (July 6, 1755 - December 7, 1826), was an English sculptor and draughtsman. He was born in York. His father was also named John, after an ancestor who, according to family tradition, had fought for Parliament at the Battle of Naseby, and afterwards settled as a carrier or farmer in Buckinghamshire. John Flaxman the father was well known as a moulder and seller of plaster casts at the sign of the Golden Head, New Street, Covent Garden, London.

Mary Moser (27 October 1744-2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated women artists of 18th century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy (1768), Moser is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers. London-born Moser was trained by her Swiss-born artist and enameller father George Michael Moser (1706-1783) and her talents were evident at an early age: she won her first Society of Arts medal at 14, …

Francis Cotes was an English painter, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting, and a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768. Born in London, the eldest son of Robert Cotes, an apothecary (Francis's younger brother Samuel Cotes (1734–1818) also became an artist, specialising in miniatures), and trained with portrait painter George Knapton (1698-1778) before setting up his own business in his father's business premises in London's Cork Street – learning, …

George Scott Romney is an American Republican politician and lawyer in the state of Michigan. He sits on the Michigan State University Board of Trustees. He is the son of former Michigan Governor George Romney and brother of the former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney.

Sir Martin Archer Shee (December 23, 1769 - August 13, 1850) was a British portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy. He was born in Dublin, of an old Catholic Irish family, and his father, a merchant, regarded the profession of a painter as an unsuitable occupation for a descendant of the Shees. Martin Shee nevertheless studied art in the Dublin Society, and came to London. There, in 1788, he was introduced by William Burke to Joshua Reynolds, …

The Hon. Charles Francis Greville F.R.S., M.P. (12 May 1749 — 1809), a younger son of Francis Greville, the Earl of Warwick, was a British antiquarian and collector. Though he lived on a stringent income of ₤500 a year, he managed to acquire antiquities from Gavin Hamilton in Rome and purchased through his uncle a genre piece by Annibale Carracci. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, his special interest was in minerals and precious stones.

Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) (1742-1810) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed "Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King" (ie pastels). Born and schooled in Honiton, Devon, Humphrey was attracted by the gallery of casts opened by the Duke of Richmond and came to London to study art at Shipley's school.

Valentine Green (1739-1813), British engraver, was born at Halesowen. He was placed by his father in a solicitor's office at Evesham, where he remained for two years; but ultimately he decided, on his own responsibility, to abandon the legal profession and became a pupil of a line engraver at Worcester. In 1765 he migrated to London and began work as a mezzotint engraver, having taught himself the technicalities of this art, …

Vice-Admiral George Darby (c.1720 - 1790) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was the second son of Jonathan Darby III Esq. (d.1742/3), of Leap Castle, in King's County, Ireland. He had received his first command in 1747 and his career was uneventful until the Seven Years War, in which he served under Admiral Rodney at the capture of Martinique, 1762.

Richard T. Slone is an English painter who has established himself as one of the world’s most sought-after up and coming artists, a multi-award winner whose paintings are now widely collected throughout the world. Richard was born in 1974 in the quaint northern English town of Dalton-in-Furness, the same small town that 250 years earlier was the home of legendary English painter, George Romney. Slone, much like Romney has a special gift and is self-taught.

James Baynes (1766 - 1837), watercolour painter and drawing-master, was an English painter who worked primarily with watercolours. He was born on 5 April 1766 in Lancaster and was the son of a local tradesman. Of his family little is known apart from the fact that he was the eldest of six children, his grandfather being a Catholic priest in Kirkby Lonsdale where his father was born.

Edward Wortley Montagu (1713 - April 29, 1776), was an English author and traveller. He was the son of Edward Wortley Montagu, MP and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems to have inherited. He twice ran away from Winchester College, and the second time made his way as far as Porto. He was then sent to travel with a tutor in the West Indies, and afterwards with a keeper to the Netherlands.

Terry Rakolta (born September 18 1943) is an American homemaker and activist who led an ultimately unsuccessful boycott against the Fox Broadcasting Company sitcom "Married... with Children". Born Terry Ambrose, she is the sister of Ronna Romney, former daughter-in-law of Michigan governor George Romney. Rakolta's husband John Rakolta is the Treasurer for the 2008 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate.

Peter Monroe (born August 25, 1943), was a Republican U.S. Senate Candidate in the state of Florida. He is a real-estate developer and an attorney. He was an appointee by the first President Bush to a post steering the federal government's bailout of the savings and loan industry. He went on to serve with United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp as the Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

James Cranke (1707-80) was born at Little Urswick, near Barrow, and lived there for most of his life. He was trained as a plasterer, but became a portrait painter and attempted to make his name in London c.1737-52. Several art historians have recognised that he may have been more prolific had ill health not forced him to return home. His chosen medium was oil on canvas. James Cranke taught the well-known artist George Romney (1734-1802) how to paint when he was a small boy.

Harriot Mellon (born circa 1777, died 1837) was the daughter of strolling players and became an actress, eventually starring at Drury Lane. When she was younger though and appearing at the Duke Street Theatre she attracted the attention of the elderly but very wealthy banker, Thomas Coutts who, with his brother John Coutts, had founded Coutts & Co, the royal bank. She became his mistress until his first wife died 10 years later following which she became his second wife.

Sir Chalonor Ogle (1726-27 August 1816) was an Admiral in the British navy. He was the son of Nathaniel Ogle of Kirkley Hall, Northumberland. In 1773 he acquired the manor of Kings Worthy, Hampshire and on 12 March 1816 was created 1st Baronet of Worthy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. His sister Isabella married his cousin and namesake Admiral Sir Chalinor Ogle (1681-1750) He married Hester Thomas daughter of the Bishop of Winchester in 1761.