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Alexander, Boyd (1873–1910), traveller and ornithologist  

O. J. R. Howarth

revised by Mark Pottle

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Alexander, Boyd (1873–1910), traveller and ornithologist, born at Willesley Place, Cranbrook, Kent, on 16 January 1873, was a twin son (with Robert Alexander) of Colonel Boyd Francis Alexander, of an Ayrshire family, and his wife, Mary Wilson. After education at Radley College...

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Alexander, Cosmo (1724–1772), portrait painter and traveller  

Patricia R. Andrew

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Alexander, Cosmo (1724–1772), portrait painter and traveller, was born probably in Aberdeen, the son and pupil of the Aberdonian painter and engraver John Alexander (1686–c.1766), who had worked in Rome from 1711 to 1719, and his wife, Isobel Innes. John Alexander...

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Alexander, Cosmo (1724–1772)  

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Cosmo Alexander (1724–1772) self-portrait, before 1745? Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collections

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American Indians in England (act. c. 1500–1615)  

Alden T. Vaughan

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American Indians in England (act. c. 1500–1615), included approximately thirty-five American natives of the western hemisphere, who lived for a time in England. The first were brought from the ‘Newfound Island’ by Sebastian Cabot in 1498 or, more likely, by Bristol seamen in 1501 or 1502. According to the ...

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Amoret (fl. 1605–1608)  

Alden T. Vaughan

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Arnaq (d. 1577)  

Alden T. Vaughan

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Arundell, Francis Vyvyan Jago (1780–1846), antiquary and traveller  

W. P. Courtney

revised by Christine North

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Arundell, Francis Vyvyan Jago (1780–1846), antiquary and traveller, was born at Launceston, Cornwall, in July 1780, the only son of Thomas Jago, a solicitor in that town, and his wife, Catherine, née Bolt, daughter of a surgeon at Launceston. He was educated at ...

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Atkinson, Lucy Sherrard [née Lucy Sherrard Finley] (1817–1893), traveller and writer  

Jeremy Howard and Annette Peach

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Baber, Edward Colborne (1843–1890), orientalist and traveller  

Thomas Seccombe

revised by Janette Ryan

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Baber, Edward Colborne (1843–1890), orientalist and traveller, was born at Dulwich, Kent, on 30 April 1843, the son of Edward Baber (1815–1901), headmaster of Dulwich College grammar school, and his wife, Mary Hayward Colborne (1818/19–1881). He was a great-nephew of ...

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Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde (1843–1906), compiler of guidebooks  

G. S. Woods

revised by Julian Lock

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Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde (1843–1906), compiler of guidebooks, born at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, on 6 March 1843, was the second son of three children of Whieldon Bird Baddeley (bap. 1800, d. 1851), solicitor, of Rocester, Staffordshire, and his wife, Frances Blurton Webb...

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Baikie, William Balfour (1825–1864), traveller and surgeon  

Stanley Lane-Poole

revised by Elizabeth Baigent

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Baikie, William Balfour (1825–1864), traveller and surgeon, eldest son of Captain John Baikie RN, was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, on 27 August 1825 and educated privately and at the grammar school there. After taking his degree in medicine at Edinburgh, he entered the ...

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Baillie (née Wathen), Marianne (1788–1831), travel writer and versifier  

Rosemary Mitchell

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Baillie (née Wathen), Marianne (1788–1831), travel writer and versifier, was born on 13 July 1788 (in Jamaica, according to some accounts) and baptized at St James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 11 March 1790, the only daughter and eldest of three children of ...

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Baker [née von Sass], Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916), traveller in Africa  

Dorothy Middleton

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Baker [née von Sass], Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916), traveller in Africa, was born on 6 August 1841, probably in a German-speaking region of Hungary. She was the sole survivor of an attack on her home in which the rest of her family died during the disturbances of 1848. Nothing more is known of her antecedents or early life. She is next recorded in January 1859 in the Turkish town of ...

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Baker, Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916)  

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Florence Barbara Maria Baker, Lady Baker (1841–1916) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Baker, Sir Samuel White (1821–1893), traveller and explorer in Africa  

Thomas Paul Ofcansky

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Baker, Sir Samuel White (1821–1893), traveller and explorer in Africa, was born on 8 June 1821 in London, the second of the eight children of Samuel Baker (d. 1862) of Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire, and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Dobson...

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Baker, Sir Samuel White (1821–1893)  

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Sir Samuel White Baker (1821–1893) by Maull & Co., 1860s © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Bankes, William John (1786–1855), traveller and antiquary  

Elizabeth Baigent

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Bankes, William John (1786–1855), traveller and antiquary, was born on 11 December 1786, second son of Henry Bankes (1757–1834) of Kingston Lacy, Dorset, politician and author, and his wife, Frances (1760/61–1823), daughter of William Woodley, governor of the Leeward Islands, and the elder brother of ...

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Bankes, William John (1786–1855)  

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William John Bankes (1786–1855) by Sir George Hayter, 1836 Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (The National Trust). Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

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Basire, Isaac, de Preaumont (bap. 1608, d. 1676), Church of England clergyman and traveller  

Colin Brennen

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Basire, Isaac, de Preaumont (bap. 1608, d. 1676), Church of England clergyman and traveller, the son of Jean Basire, advocate and minor noble, and his wife, Judith le Macherier (d. 1626), was baptized at the Huguenot church in Rouen, France, in 1608. Little is known of his early years, but he was a student at the ...

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Battel, Andrew (b. 1560s?, d. in or after 1613), traveller and trader  

Alfred Goodwin

revised by Peter C. Mancall

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Battel, Andrew (b. 1560s?, d. in or after 1613), traveller and trader, was probably born in Leigh, Essex; his parents are unknown. According to Samuel Purchas, a former neighbour in Essex, who published an account of his experiences, Battel sailed from Plymouth on 7 May 1589 on a voyage under the direction of ...