Florence Barbara Maria Baker, Lady Baker (1841–1916) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Baker, Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916)
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Baker [née von Sass], Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916), traveller in Africa
Dorothy Middleton
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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Blunt, Anne Isabella Noel, suo jure Baroness Wentworth (1837–1917)
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Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, suo jure Baroness Wentworth (1837–1917) by unknown photographer [with Kassida] © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
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Blunt [née King], Anne Isabella Noel, suo jure Baroness Wentworth (1837–1917), traveller and breeder of Arab horses
Rosemary Archer
Blunt [née King], Anne Isabella Noel, suo jure Baroness Wentworth (1837–1917), traveller and breeder of Arab horses, was born on 22 September 1837 in London, the second of the three children, and the only daughter, of William King, first earl of Lovelace...
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Chatterton [née Iremonger; other married name Dering], Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles, Lady Chatterton (1806–1876), author and traveller
G. C. Boase
revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Chatterton [née Iremonger; other married name Dering], Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles, Lady Chatterton (1806–1876), author and traveller, was the only child of the Revd Lascelles Iremonger (d. 6 Jan 1830), prebendary of Winchester, and his second wife, Harriet, youngest sister of ...
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Dixie [née Douglas], Lady Florence Caroline (1855–1905), author and traveller
Dorothy Middleton
Dixie [née Douglas], Lady Florence Caroline (1855–1905), author and traveller, was born in Kinmount, Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire, on 24 May 1855, one of a pair of twins, the youngest of the six children of Archibald William Douglas, eighth marquess of Queensberry (1818–1858), and his wife, ...
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Dixie, Lady Florence Caroline (1855–1905)
Maker: Andrew Maclure
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Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (1855–1905) by Andrew Maclure, pubd 1877 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Gascoigne, Sir Thomas, eighth baronet (1745–1810), traveller and politician
Alexander Lock
Gascoigne, Sir Thomas, eighth baronet (1745–1810), traveller and politician, was born on 7 March 1745 at the English Benedictine convent at Cambrai, France. He was the sixth child and third son of Sir Edward Gascoigne, sixth baronet (1697–1750), of Parlington, west Yorkshire, and his wife, ...
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Gascoigne, Sir Thomas, eighth baronet (1745–1810)
Maker: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
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Sir Thomas Gascoigne, eighth baronet (1745–1810) by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1779 © Leeds Museums and Galleries (Lotherton Hall), U.K. / The Bridgeman Art Library
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Gawen, Thomas (1612–1684), religious writer and traveller
Ruth Jordan
Gawen, Thomas (1612–1684), religious writer and traveller, son of Thomas Gawen, a Church of England minister of Bristol city, was born at Marshfield, Gloucestershire. He was admitted a scholar of Winchester College in 1625. In 1632 he was made perpetual fellow of New College, Oxford...
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Louis, Alfred Hyman (1829–1915)
Maker: Histed
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Alfred Hyman Louis (1829–1915) by Histed © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Louis, Alfred Hyman (1829–1915), scholar and visionary vagrant
Albert R. Vogeler
Louis, Alfred Hyman (1829–1915), scholar and visionary vagrant, was born in 1829 in Birmingham, the eldest son of Hyman Tobias (or Tobar) Louis, a well-to-do merchant, and his wife, Maria. At fifteen he entered King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he began long friendships with ...
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Montagu, Edward Wortley (1713–1776), traveller and criminal
Isobel Grundy
Montagu, Edward Wortley (1713–1776), traveller and criminal, was born in London on 16 May 1713, the elder child and only son of Edward Wortley Montagu (1678–1761), MP, diplomat, and entrepreneur, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (bap. 1689, d. 1762), writer and traveller. In 1716 ...
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Palgrave, William Gifford (1826–1888), traveller and diplomatist
Jason Thompson
Palgrave, William Gifford (1826–1888), traveller and diplomatist, was born at 22 Parliament Street, Westminster, London, on 24 January 1826. He was the second son of Sir Francis Palgrave (1788–1861), founder of the Public Record Office, whose name had been Francis Cohen until in 1823 he converted to the ...
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Palgrave, William Gifford (1826–1888)
Maker: Ernest Edwards
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William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) by Ernest Edwards © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sykes, Sir Mark, sixth baronet (1879–1919), traveller and politician
Lawrence James
Sykes, Sir Mark, sixth baronet (1879–1919), traveller and politician, was born on 17 March 1879 in London, the only son of Sir Tatton Sykes, fifth baronet (1826–1913) [see under Sykes, Sir Tatton], of Sledmere, and his wife, (Christina Anne) Jessica (...
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Sykes, Sir Mark, sixth baronet (1879–1919)
Maker: Leopold Pilichowski
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Sir Mark Sykes, sixth baronet (1879–1919) by Leopold Pilichowski, 1915 private collection. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Wolff, Joseph (1795–1862)
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Joseph Wolff (1795–1862) by unknown artist His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury / The Church Commissioners for England; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Wolff, Joseph (1795–1862), missionary and traveller
E. I. Carlyle
revised by Todd M. Endelman
Wolff, Joseph (1795–1862), missionary and traveller, son of David Levi, rabbi, and his wife, Sarah, daughter of Isaac Lipchowitz of Bretzfeld, was born at Weilersbach, near Forchheim and Bamberg, in Franconia. Given the name Wolff at his circumcision eight days after his birth, he took the forename ...
