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Born December 20, 1789 • Leeds • England
Died August 22, 1861 (aged 71) • Harrogate • England
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of Shaftesbury, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1862; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of Shaftesbury
British industrial reformer [1801–1885]
Michael Thomas Sadler
Michael Thomas Sadler
British politician
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Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston
Canadian governor-general
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Beatrice Webb
British economist
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Sidney Webb
British economist
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt, the Younger
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford
prime minister of Great Britain
Full-length portrait of King George III in a red military uniform and black bicorne hat, standing outdoors with a distant building and cloudy sky in the background.
George III
king of Great Britain
Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
prime minister of United Kingdom
William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
prime minister of United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
prime minister of United Kingdom
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox
British politician
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
“Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone
English jurist
Charles III
Charles III
king of the United Kingdom