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American politician

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist

American politician; President of the United States from 1797 to 1801

English writer and lexicographer

English and American political activist

Founder of the Methodist movement

English poet

English minister and preacher

English writer on agriculture, translator and editor

An English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician

English historian and Member of Parliament

English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer

British dramatist

English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer

English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society

English writer and poet, 1724-1805

American Quaker preacher and writer

British general and playwright, defeated in the 1777 Saratoga campaign

Figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719

English author and botanist

British-Canadian fur trader

English author of a slave narrative

British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor

English poet and historian

British painter

British clergyman, poet

British writer

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer

English minister, poet, and novelist

English novelist and dramatist

English schoolmaster, writer, minister and doctor of law

British musician

English dramatist and civil servant (1732–1811)

English divine and author

British poet

English farmer and writer on agriculture

English poet and playwright

British divine

British author and engraver

English classical scholar and biblical critic