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Abell, Adam (1475x80?–1537?), Franciscan friar and chronicler  

Stephanie M. Thorson

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23 September 2004
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Abell, Adam (1475x80?–1537?), Franciscan friar and chronicler, was born in Salt Preston, Haddingtonshire, but the names and occupations of his parents are not recorded and details of his early life are scant. What little is known is derived largely from his chronicle, ...

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Abrahams, Israel (1858–1925)  

Maker: Isaac Cohen

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23 September 2010
Israel Abrahams (1858–1925) by Isaac Cohen Liberal Jewish Synagogue

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Abrahams, Israel (1858–1925), Jewish scholar and historian  

Bryan Diamond

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23 September 2010

Abrahams, Israel (1858–1925), Jewish scholar and historian, was born on 26 November 1858 at 10 Finsbury Square, London, the second son in the family of four sons and two daughters of Barnett Abrahams (1831–1863) and his wife, Jane, née Brandon (1834–1895). His father was principal of ...

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Abram, Annie (1869–1930), historian  

Janet Sondheimer

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Abram, Annie (1869–1930), historian, was born at 45 Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, London, on 26 May 1869, the younger daughter and fourth child of George Abram (1833–1897?), law stationer, and his first wife, Ann Arding (1835–1869), who died a month later. Her name was originally registered as ...

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Abramsky, Chimen (1916–2010), bookseller and historian  

Steven J. Zipperstein

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Abramsky, Chimen (1916–2010), bookseller and historian, was born on 16 September 1916 in Smalyavichy, near Minsk, Russia, the third of four sons of Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), rabbinic scholar, and his wife, Reizel (d. 1965), daughter of the leading rabbinic figure Israel Jonathan Jerusalimsky...

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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)  

Maker: Eveleen Myers

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23 September 2004
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902) by Eveleen Myers, 1890s © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton (1834–1902), historian and moralist  

Josef L. Altholz

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23 September 2004
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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton (1834–1902), historian and moralist, was born at Naples on 10 January 1834, the only child of Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Acton, seventh baronet (1801–1837), and Marie Louise Pelline de Dalberg (1812–1860), the French-bred heir of ...

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Adair, Patrick (1624?–1693/4), Presbyterian minister and historian  

Finlay Holmes

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Adair, Patrick (1624?–1693/4), Presbyterian minister and historian, was the son of John Adair of Genoch in Galloway. His family were prominently involved in the Scottish migration to Ulster in the seventeenth century, and he was the nephew of Sir Robert Adair, a major Scots colonizer in ...

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Adamson, Henry (bap. 1581, d. 1637), poet and historian  

Katharine A. Craik

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23 September 2004
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Adamson, Henry (bap. 1581, d. 1637), poet and historian, was baptized in Perth on 11 November 1581, the son of the merchant James Adamson (d. after 1617), who served as dean of guild in 1600 and provost between 1609 and 1612, and ...

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Adcock, Sir Frank Ezra (1886–1968), historian of Greece and Rome  

J. A. Crook

revised

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Adcock, Sir Frank Ezra (1886–1968), historian of Greece and Rome, was born on 15 April 1886 at Desford, Leicestershire, the fourth of the five children of Thomas Draper Adcock, schoolmaster, head of the Desford Industrial School, and his wife, Mary Esther Coltman. He was educated at the ...

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Adolphus, John (1768–1845), barrister and historian  

Francis Espinasse

revised by Jonathan Harris

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Adolphus, John (1768–1845), barrister and historian, was born in London on 7 August 1768; he was of German-Jewish descent. His grandfather was domestic physician to Frederick the Great, and wrote a French romance, Histoire des diables modernes (1763), which is sometimes wrongly ascribed to ...

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Ady, Cecilia Mary (1881–1958), historian  

Benjamin G. Kohl

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Ady, Cecilia Mary (1881–1958), historian, was born on 28 November 1881 at Edgcote, Northamptonshire, the only child of the Revd (William) Henry Ady (d. 1915), rector of Edgcote and later of Charing, Kent, and Ockham, Surrey, and his wife, Julia Mary Cartwright (1851–1924)...

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Æthelweard [Ethelwerd] (d. 998?), chronicler and magnate  

Patrick Wormald

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Æthelweard [Ethelwerd] (d. 998?), chronicler and magnate, was ealdorman of south-western England. He styled himself 'Patricius Consul Fabius Quaestor', a latinization of 'Æthel-/ealdorman/Fabius/-weard'. He was the father of Æthelmær, grandfather of one Æthelweard and grandfather-in-law of another: all also ealdormen, and two of the same south-western ealdormanry as ...

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Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864), historian  

Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864), historian, the fourth child and only daughter of John Aikin MD (1747–1822), and his wife, Martha Jennings (d. 1830), was born in Warrington on 6 November 1781. Her three brothers were Arthur Aikin, Charles Rochemont Aikin, and Edmund Aikin...

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Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864)  

Maker: unknown photographer

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23 September 2004
Lucy Aikin (1781–1864) by unknown photographer private collection; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London

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Aio (supp. fl. 950x75), supposed historian  

C. F. Keary

revised by Marios Costambeys

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Aio (supp. fl. 950x75), supposed historian, is said to have been a monk in the abbey of Crowland, Lincolnshire, and is mentioned only in the forged Historia Croylandensis attributed to Ingulf, a genuine eleventh-century abbot of the same monastery. This work was probably written in the mid-fifteenth century and professed to make use of material collected by two monks of ...

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Aiton, William (1760–1848), genealogist  

Janet Browne

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Aiton, William (1760–1848), genealogist, was born in Silverwood, Kilmarnock, in January 1760, the eldest son of Andrew Aiton (1722–1809) of Woodhead, farmer, and his wife, Jean Brown (d. 1809). He was a distant relative of the botanist William Aiton (1731–1793). In June 1778 he married ...

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Alban [St Albans], Roger (d. after 1461), genealogist, copyist, and Carmelite friar  

Richard Copsey

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23 September 2004
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Alban [St Albans], Roger (d. after 1461), genealogist, copyist, and Carmelite friar, was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and joined his order in London. He was ordained acolyte on 17 December 1401 and deacon on 19 December 1405. His name occurs as the copyist on three manuscripts, BL, Harley MS 3138 (dated 1424), Harley MS 211, and Stowe MS 8, and it has also been claimed that he copied BL, Stowe MS 38 and, in 1439, the anti-...

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Alger, John Goldworth (bap. 1836, d. 1907), journalist and historian  

S. E. Fryer

revised by H. C. G. Matthew

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Alger, John Goldworth (bap. 1836, d. 1907), journalist and historian, born at Diss, Norfolk, and baptized on 7 August 1836, was the only son of John Alger, a corn merchant of that town, and his wife, Jemima, daughter of Salem Goldworth, yeoman, of ...

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Alison, Sir Archibald, first baronet (1792–1867)  

Maker: Sir John Watson-Gordon

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Sir Archibald Alison, first baronet (1792–1867) by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1839 unknown collection / Christie's; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London