Anders, Władysław (1892–1970), army officer and politician, was born on 11 August 1892 in Błonie, in the county of Kutno, in Russian Poland. The eldest of four sons of Catholic parents, he attended secondary school in Warsaw, and moved with the family to ...
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Anders, Władysław (1892–1970), army officer and politician
Peter D. Stachura
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Ball, Sir Alexander John, baronet (1756–1809), naval officer and politician in Malta
Henry Frendo
Ball, Sir Alexander John, baronet (1756–1809), naval officer and politician in Malta, was born on 22 July 1756 at Ebworth Park, Painswick, Gloucestershire, the son of Robert Ball (1714/15–1766), high sheriff of that county, and Mary, née Dickinson. He attended Market House School...
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Ball, Sir Alexander John, baronet (1756–1809)
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Sir Alexander John Ball, baronet (1756–1809) by unknown engraver, pubd 1803 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Berezovsky, Boris Abramovich (1946–2013), entrepreneur and politician
Francis Pike
Berezovsky, Boris Abramovich (1946–2013), entrepreneur and politician, was born in Moscow on 23 January 1946, the son of Abram Markovich Berezovsky (1911–1979), a Jewish civil engineer, and his wife, Anna Aleksandrovna, née Gelman (1923–2013), a nurse. His life started in academic obscurity. After flunking his mathematics examinations for ...
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Bernstorff, Andreas Gottlieb von, Baron Bernstorff in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1649–1726), politician and diplomat
Andrew C. Thompson
Bernstorff, Andreas Gottlieb von, Baron Bernstorff in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1649–1726), politician and diplomat, was born on 2 March 1649 ns in Ratzeburg, then in the duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, in northern Germany, the second son of Andreas von Bernstorff (1604–1655)...
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Biggs, Matilda Ashurst (1816/17–1866), campaigner for women's rights and supporter of Italian independence
Jonathan Spain
Biggs, Matilda Ashurst (1816/17–1866), campaigner for women's rights and supporter of Italian independence, was born in Muswell Hill, Middlesex, the second daughter of William Henry Ashurst (d. 1855) and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Brown (d. 1854), of Muswell Hill, Middlesex. Elizabeth Ann Ashurst (known as Eliza)...
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Blind, Karl (1826–1907), political refugee and author
S. E. Fryer
revised by Matthew Lee
Blind, Karl (1826–1907), political refugee and author, was born of middle-class parents in Mannheim, in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany, on 4 September 1826. He was educated at the Lyceum, Mannheim, and then at Karlsruhe, where he won gold and silver medals; he proceeded with a scholarship to ...
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Boffa, Sir Paul (1890–1962), prime minister of Malta
Henry Frendo
Boffa, Sir Paul (1890–1962), prime minister of Malta, was born in Vittoriosa, Malta, on 30 June 1890, the son of Carmelo Boffa and his wife, Carmela, née Serracino. After attending the lyceum in Valletta and the University of Malta he graduated as a medical doctor in 1913. During the First World War he served with the ...
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Boxshall, Edwin George (1897–1984), Balkan specialist and intelligence officer
Richard Davenport-Hines
Boxshall, Edwin George (1897–1984), Balkan specialist and intelligence officer, was born on 4 February 1897 in Bucharest, the only son and younger child of William George Boxshall (d. 1918), a butcher's son who ran a small ironworks in Romania, and his wife, ...
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Deluc, Jean-André (1727–1817), natural philosopher and politician
Theodore S. Feldman
Deluc, Jean-André (1727–1817), natural philosopher and politician, was born on 8 February 1727 in Geneva, the elder of the two children of François Deluc, a wealthy watch manufacturer. He was educated by his father, who had published defences of Christianity against Mandeville and other rationalistic writers, and was active in the stormy arena of Genevan politics. ...
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D'Ivernois, Sir Francis (1757–1842), political exile and politician in Geneva
Richard Whatmore
D'Ivernois, Sir Francis (1757–1842), political exile and politician in Geneva, was born François d'Ivernois at Geneva on 9 April 1757, the fifth of eight children of François-Henri d'Ivernois (1722–1778), merchant, and his wife, Marianne Dehors (1727–1796). During the 1760s his father became a leading figure in the ...
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Duroveray, Jacques-Antoine (1747–1814), political exile and politician in Geneva
Richard Whatmore
Duroveray, Jacques-Antoine (1747–1814), political exile and politician in Geneva, was born at Geneva into a poor labouring family. Little is known about Duroveray's early life, aside from his education in law at the Collège de Genève and his qualification as an advocate in 1771. In spite of his youth he was named from 1766 among the leaders of the ...
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Emin, Emin Joseph (1726–1809), army officer in the East India Company and Armenian nationalist
Michael H. Fisher
Emin, Emin Joseph (1726–1809), army officer in the East India Company and Armenian nationalist, was born in Hamadan, Persia, the son of Hovsep (also known as Joseph; d. 1777), merchant. During Emin's youth internecine wars killed his mother (in 1734) and next youngest brother, scattering his family. about 1735 ...
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Foscolo, Ugo (1778–1827), poet and Italian patriot
Peter Brand
Foscolo, Ugo (1778–1827), poet and Italian patriot, was born on 6 February 1778 on the Ionian island of Zante, then under the control of Venice, the eldest of the four children of Andrea Foscolo (1754–1788), an Italian physician, and his wife, Diamantina Spatis...
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Granville, Augustus Bozzi (1783–1872), physician and Italian patriot
Ornella Moscucci
Granville, Augustus Bozzi (1783–1872), physician and Italian patriot, was born in Milan on 7 October 1783, the third son of Carlo Bozzi (1742/3–1826), postmaster-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, and his wife, Maria Antonietta Rapazzini. His father's family was connected to the Bonapartes in ...
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Hassan, Sir Joshua Abraham (1915–1997), chief minister of Gibraltar
Jill Edwards
Hassan, Sir Joshua Abraham (1915–1997), chief minister of Gibraltar, was born in Gibraltar on 21 August 1915, the son of Abraham M. Hassan, a cloth merchant, from a distinguished merchant family of Moroccan Sephardi extraction that had first settled in Gibraltar in 1728. He was educated by the Christian brothers of ...
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Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan (1915–1997) by unknown photographer, c. 1950 Getty Images
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Hervart, Esther d' [married name Esther de la Tour du Pin, marquise de Gouvernet in the French nobility; known as Madame de Gouvernet] (c. 1636–1722), noblewoman and refugee
Vivienne Larminie
Hervart, Esther d' [married name Esther de la Tour du Pin, marquise de Gouvernet in the French nobility; known as Madame de Gouvernet] (c. 1636–1722), noblewoman and refugee, was the only daughter among the three surviving children of Barthélemy d'Hervart (1607–1676) and his wife, ...
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Irby, (Adeline) Paulina (1831–1911)
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(Adeline) Paulina Irby (1831–1911) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
