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Reference list

Updates: May 2005

The following 140 biographies extend the dictionary's coverage of people who died in or before 2000. They are drawn from all walks of national life between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. In this update, particular emphasis is given to three types of people: visitors and immigrants to Britain from mainland Europe; women involved in politics; and entrepreneurs behind well-known brands.
Alderson, Thomas Hopper (1903–1965), wartime rescue party leader
Anders, Władysław (1892–1970), army officer and politician
Astry, Diana (bap. 1671, d. 1716), diarist and compiler of recipe books
Avery, Thomas (1813–1894), scale manufacturer and local politician
Babington, Thomas (1758–1837), philanthropist and politician
Barillon d'Amoncourt, Paul, marquis de Branges in the French nobility (1630x38–1691), diplomat
Bellamy, John (fl. 1773), caterer
Benet, John (d. 1474), priest and chronicler
Bernard, Simon Francis (1817–1862), revolutionary
Bernstorff, Andreas Gottlieb von, Baron Bernstorff in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1649–1726), politician and diplomat
Berry, Edward (1706/7–1760), actor and singer
Bewley, Joshua (1819–1900), tea and coffee merchant
Blage, Sir George (c.1512–1551), courtier
Blanc, (Jean Joseph) Louis (1811–1882), political thinker and exile
Bothmer, Hans Kaspar von, Count Bothmer in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1656–1732), courtier and diplomat
Browne, Felicia Mary (1904–1936), artist and political activist
Brugge, Lodewijk van, earl of Winchester (c.1427–1492), courtier and diplomat
Bury, Martha Jane (1850–1913), co-operator
Butler, Joyce Shore (1910–1992), politician
Byerley, Robert (bap. 1660, d. 1714), racehorse owner, army officer, and politician
Campbell, Mary, of Mamore (bap. 1685, d. 1736), courtier
Carré, Jean (d. 1572), entrepreneur and glass manufacturer
Cary, Henry, fourth Viscount Falkland (bap. 1634, d. 1663), politician
Charles, duke of Orléans (1394–1465), prince and poet
Cibber, Catherine (bap. 1669, d. 1734), singer and actress
Corbet, Freda Künzlen (1900–1993), teacher and politician
Cousin, Jean (d. 1574), Reformed minister
Cumming, Sir William Gordon Gordon-, fourth baronet (1848–1930), disgraced socialite
Dagworth, Thomas, first Lord Dagworth (d. 1350), baron and soldier
Denington, Evelyn Joyce, Baroness Denington (1907–1998), politician
Denison, Stephen (d. 1649), Church of England clergyman
Deroin, Jeanne (1805–1894), suffragist and socialist
Duff, Margaret Doreen [Peggy] (1910–1981), political activist
Edgar, William (1790/91–1869), haberdasher
Ernle, Sir John (1617x20–1697), politician
Esterhazy, Charles-Marie-Ferdinand Walsin- (1847–1923), traitor and exile
Eugénie (1826–1920), empress of the French and exile
Evans, Evan (1882–1965), coach tour operator and local politician
František, Josef (1913–1940), officer in the Polish air force
Gaevernitz, Gerhart von Schulze- (1864–1943), political economist and commentator on Britain
Gallars, Nicolas des (c.1520–1581), Reformed minister
Gardstein, George (1885?–1910) [see under Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910)]
Gilroy, John Thomas Young (1898–1985), graphic artist and portrait painter
Godolphin, Henrietta, suo jure duchess of Marlborough (1681–1733), patron of the arts
Grueber, Francis (c.1657–1730), gunpowder and leather manufacturer and merchant
Harington, John (1588/9–1654), lawyer and diarist
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732–1809), composer
Heller, Erich (1911–1990), German scholar
Hervart, Esther d' (c.1636–1722), noblewoman and refugee
Jacob, Sarah (1857–1869), victim of self-starvation
Jacob, William Beale (1825–1902), biscuit manufacturer
Jacobi, Johann Christian (1670?–1750), bookseller and translator
James, Warren (1792–1841), miners' leader
Janoušek, Karel (1893–1971), officer in the Czech air force
Jarrin, William Alexis (1784–1848), confectioner and author
Jenner, Henry (1848–1934), librarian and promoter of the Cornish language
Jenner, Kitty Lee (1853–1936), author and artist [see under Jenner, Henry (1848–1934)]
Keene, Theophilus (c.1680–1718), actor and theatre manager
Kinkel, Johanna (1810–1858), music teacher and exile
Knight, Robert (1675–1744), financier and a founder of the South Sea Company
Knight, Robert, earl of Catherlough (1702–1772), politician
Kortright, Frances Isabella Staveley Berkeley Wood (1821–1900), author and anti-suffragist
Kravchinsky, Sergey Mikhailovich (1851–1895), revolutionary and author
La Fite, Marie Elisabeth de (1737–1794), author, translator, and governess
Lannoy, Ghillebert de (1386–1462), soldier and diplomat
Lascelles, Henry (bap. 1690, d. 1753), merchant and politician
Lea, John Wheeley (bap. 1791, d. 1874), sauce manufacturer
Levison, Wilhelm (1876–1947), historian and philologist
Lewcock, Constance Mary [Connie] (1894–1980), suffragette and socialist
Linde, Andreas (d. 1759), bookseller and bookbinder
Linge, Abraham van (fl. 1623–1642), glass painter [see under Linge, Bernard van (b. 1598, d. in or after 1644)]
Linge, Bernard van (b. 1598, d. in or after 1644), glass painter
Lipski, Israel (1865–1887), convicted murderer
Lucas, Charles Davis (1834–1914), naval officer
Lyle, Abram (1820–1891), shipowner and sugar refiner
Maas, Paul Lazarus (1880–1964), classical scholar and Byzantinist
McKay, Margaret (1911–1996), politician and trade unionist
Magrath, Cornelius (1737–1760), giant
Malatesta, Errico (1853–1932), anarchist
Mansfeld, (Peter) Ernst (II) von, count von Mansfeld in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (c.1580–1626), soldier and military entrepreneur
Manuel II (1889–1932), king of Portugal
Marie-Amélie Thérèse (1782–1866), queen of the French and exile
Markov, Georgi Ivanov (1929–1978), writer and dissident
Metcalfe, Percy (1895–1970), coin, medal, and seal designer and sculptor
Meysenbug, Baroness Malwida Rivalier von (1816–1903), writer and exile
Middleton, John (1751–1833), surveyor and agriculturist
Millington, Edward (c.1636–1703), auctioneer and bookseller
Monks, Constance Mary [Connie] (1911–1989), politician
Mordaunt, Carey, countess of Peterborough and Monmouth (c.1658–1709), political wife, and correspondent of John Locke
Murdoch, Mary Charlotte (1864–1916), physician and suffragist
Neame, Sir Philip (1888–1978), army officer
Nicols, Daniel Nicolas (1833–1897), restaurateur
Orléans, Louis Philippe Albert d', count of Paris in the Orleanist French nobility (1838–1894), pretender to the French throne and exile
Orman, Rotha Beryl Lintorn Lintorn- (1895–1935), political activist
Oswald, Eugene (1826–1912), teacher and writer
Oxtoby, John (1767–1830), evangelist and Primitive Methodist preacher
Parsons, Anne [Nancy] (c.1735–1814/15), courtesan and political mistress
Percy, Algernon George, sixth duke of Northumberland (1810–1899), landowner and politician
Perrins, William Henry (1793–1867), sauce manufacturer
Pesme de Saint-Saphorin, François Louis de (1668–1737), diplomat and army officer
Peters, Jacob (1886–1938) [see under Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910)]
Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910), revolutionary
Pimm, James (1798–1866), caterer and inventor of the Pimm's cocktail
Pitt, Hester, countess of Chatham and suo jure Baroness Chatham (1720–1803), political wife
Platter, Thomas (1574–1628), physician and traveller
Plymley, Katherine (bap. 1758, d. 1829), diarist, naturalist, and painter
Polier, Charles Godefroy Étienne de (1753–1782), tutor and founding member of a learned society
Raffalovich, Marc-André (1864–1934), writer
Raynold, Thomas (d. 1559), dean of Exeter and bishop-designate of Hereford
Rimmel, Eugène (1820–1887), perfumer
Roberts, Dame Jean Barr McDonald (1895–1988), local politician
Robson, Inga-Stina, Baroness Robson of Kiddington (1919–1999), politician
Ruge, Arnold (1802–1880), writer and political thinker
Ryvere, Sir John (b. 1313, d. after 1364), landowner and soldier
Sabraham, Nicholas (b. c.1325, d. in or after 1399), soldier
Sackville, Mary, countess of Dorset (bap. 1586, d. 1645), royal governess
Sais, Sir Gregory (d. 1390), soldier
Sanchez, Balthazar (d. 1602), confectioner
Scaglia, Alessandro Cesare (1592–1641), diplomat and art collector
Scalé, (Peter) Bernard (1739/40–1826), cartographer and surveyor
Schroeter, Johann Samuel (c.1752–1788), composer and pianist
Schroeter, Rebecca (bap. 1751, d. 1826) [see under Schroeter, Johann Samuel (c.1752–1788)]
Seyffert, Christlieb Gottreich (fl. 1757–1764), bookseller
Shaw, Peter (fl. 1628–1629), preacher
Shippam, Alfred Ernest Cooper (1874–1947), meat and fish paste manufacturer
Simpson, John (1808/9–1864), caterer
Sinclair, Margaret Anne (1900–1925), Poor Clare nun
Sokolow, William (1885?–1911), watchmaker [see under Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910)]
Standen, Sir Anthony (d. in or after 1615), adventurer and spy
Stanegrave, Sir Roger (fl. 1280s–1331), soldier and writer
Stedman, Phyllis, Baroness Stedman (1916–1996), politician
Stewart, Mary Elizabeth Henderson, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch (1903–1984), lecturer and politician
Svaars, Fritz (1882x5–1911) [see under Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910)]
Tennant, Winifred Margaret Coombe (1874–1956), suffragist and spiritualist medium
Trassjonsky, (Sara) Rosie (b. c.1885) [see under Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910)]
Vassileva, Lena (1886/7–1963) [see under Piatkoff, Peter (fl. 1910)]
Veno, Sir William Henry (1866–1933), patent medicine entrepreneur
Villiers, Mary, suo jure countess of Buckingham (c.1570–1632), courtier
Waring, Margaret Alicia (1887–1968), politician
Wingfield, Robert (c.1513–c.1561), historian