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Walter Of Coventry: Quick Facts

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Flourished 1290 - 1300
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
British historian
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Dutch philologist and historian
Kogălniceanu, Mihail
Mihail Kogălniceanu
Romanian statesman
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Garcia de Resende
Portuguese poet
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Jacques Bongars, seigneur de Bauldry et de La Chesnaye
French historian
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Mary de la Riviere Manley
British author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
British author
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
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
John Wilkes, engraving from a manifesto commemorating his fight against general warrants and for the liberty of the press, 1768
John Wilkes
British journalist and politician
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
English poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
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Arthur Young
English writer
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Geoffrey Of Monmouth
English bishop and chronicler