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American politician

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist

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

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

English writer and lexicographer

English and American political activist

Founder of the Methodist movement

American physician, educator, author

English poet

English minister and preacher

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

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

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India

British dramatist

English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society

Scottish philosopher

Scottish lawyer, diarist and author

British general and playwright, defeated in the 1777 Saratoga campaign

American military officer

English author and botanist

British-Canadian fur trader

Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer

English author of a slave narrative

British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor

English poet and historian

British painter

British writer

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer

(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist

Scottish army officer and author

English minister, poet, and novelist

American politician, judge, and author

English novelist and dramatist

Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician

English schoolmaster, writer, minister and doctor of law

British musician

English dramatist and civil servant (1732–1811)