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Born c.1600 • Elbląg • Prussia
Died March 12, 1662 • London • England
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
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Arthur Young
English writer
Hannah More, engraving after a painting by H.W. Pickersgill.
Hannah More
English writer
Alcuin
Alcuin
Anglo-Saxon scholar
William Carey
William Carey
British missionary
Temple, Frederick
Frederick Temple
archbishop of Canterbury
William Temple
William Temple
archbishop of Canterbury
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Susanna Rowson
American author and actress
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Roger Ascham
English scholar
Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
British agriculturalist
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Sir Richard Winn Livingstone
British scholar
Quintin Hogg
Quintin Hogg
British educator
Curwen, detail of an oil painting by W. Gush; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Curwen
British educator
Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London
Jethro Tull
British agronomist and inventor
Robert Bakewell.
Robert Bakewell
British agriculturalist
Collings
Jesse Collings
British politician
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
British historian and government official
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Sir George Stapledon
English agriculturalist
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John Hall
English educator