Brooke, Sir James (1803–1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak, was born at Secrore, a suburb of Benares, India, on 29 April 1803, the second son of Thomas Brooke (1760–1835), chief judge of the East India Company's court at Moorshabad, and his Scottish second wife, ...
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Brooke, Sir James (1803–1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak
R. H. W. Reece
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Brooke, Sir James (1803–1868)
Maker: Sir Francis Grant
Sir James Brooke (1803–1868) by Sir Francis Grant, 1847 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Crawford, William Sharman (1781–1861)
Maker: John Prescott Knight
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William Sharman Crawford (1781–1861) by John Prescott Knight, exh. RA 1843 photograph © Ulster Museum. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland
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Crawford, William Sharman (1781–1861), politician and landlord in Ireland
Sidney Lee
revised by Alan O'Day
Crawford, William Sharman (1781–1861), politician and landlord in Ireland, was the eldest son of William Sharman (d. 1803), of Moira Castle, co. Down, a protestant landowner, MP for Lisburn (1783–90), and colonel of a union regiment of volunteers. His mother was Arminella...
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Le Neve, Peter (1661–1729), herald and antiquary
Thomas Woodcock
Le Neve, Peter (1661–1729), herald and antiquary, was born on 21 January 1661 in London, and baptized at St Michael, Cornhill, on the following day. He was the second of the eight children (and the elder of the two who survived, both sons) of ...
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Milnes, Robert Pemberton (1784–1858)
See Milnes, Richard Monckton, first Baron Houghton
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Rowan, Archibald Hamilton (1751–1834)
Maker: R. Cooper
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Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1834) by R. Cooper, pubd 1825 (after John Comerford, 1822) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Rowan, Archibald Hamilton (1751–1834), Irish nationalist and landowner
Liam Chambers
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton (1751–1834), Irish nationalist and landowner, was born Archibald Hamilton on 1 May 1751 at Rathbone Place, London, the elder of two children of Gawen Hamilton (1729–1805), political reformer and landowner, of Killyleagh Castle, co. Down, and his wife, Jane (...
