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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
English author of books on political philosophy
Howard Staunton
English chess master and Shakespearean scholar
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer
John Soane
English architect
Mandell Creighton
English historian and a bishop of the Church of England
William Halse Rivers Rivers
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Thomas Henry Huxley
English biologist and comparative anatomist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic poet
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet
Philip J. Bone
English musician
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
Karl Pearson
English mathematician and biometrician
William Hazlitt
English writer
E. H. Carr
English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist
G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist
Richard Hakluyt
English author, editor and translator
Thomas Arnold
English educator and historian, headmaster of Rugby School
Charles Holden
English architect
Theodore Zeldin
English academic
Richard Owen
English biologist
Thomas More
English Renaissance humanist
Edward Burnett Tylor
English anthropologist
John Leland
English poet and antiquary
Francis Willughby
English ornithologist and ichthyologist
Alexander Pope
English poet
Edward Gibbon
English historian and Member of Parliament
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
English soldier, statesman and translator
H. G. Wells
English writer
Ian Anstruther
English peer and history writer
William Smith
English antiquarian
Thomas Streatfeild
English antiquarian
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Malcolm Neesam
English historian and writer
Charles Robert Cockerell
English architect, archaeologist, and writer
Thomas Fuller
English churchman and historian
William Petty
English economist, scientist and philosopher.