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Born	1690?
Died	June 2, 1751

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

British author

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John Donne

English poet

St. John Henry Newman

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

Raikes, detail of an oil painting by George Romney; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Raikes

British philanthropist

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William Worrall Mayo

American physician

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Eleanor Belmont

American actress and philanthropist

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

English writer and artist

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.

William Hogarth

English artist

Clementine Churchill

Clementine Churchill

English aristocrat and philanthropist

A.E. Housman, detail of a drawing by William Rothenstein, 1906; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

A.E. Housman

English scholar and poet

John Caius

John Caius

British physician

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F.R. Leavis

British critic

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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield

British industrialist

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Henry Thornton

British economist, banker, and philanthropist

Fell, portrait by Sir Peter Lely; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, county of Avon

John Fell

English educator, priest, and author

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Elihu Yale

English merchant and philanthropist

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Jeremiah Dummer

British-American colonial agent

C. Day-Lewis, 1968.

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

Ronald Knox, pen and ink drawing by P. Evans, c. 1926; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Ronald Knox

British theologian