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Lorenzo Bartolini

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A Florentine sculptor, patronised by Napoleon; produced a great number of busts (1777-1850).

Luise Aston

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German authoress, championed the rights of women, and went about in male attire; b. 1820.

Born at Preston, Lancashire; bred to the trade of a barber; took interest in the machinery of cotton-spinning; with the help of a clockmaker, invented the spinning frame; was mobbed for threatening ...

Sir Robert Ayton

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A poet of considerable merit, a native of Fife, born at Kinaldie, who made his fortune by a Latin panegyric to King James I. on his accession; was on friendly terms with the eminent literary men of ...

Sir Samuel White Baker

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A man of enterprise and travel, born in London; discovered the Albert Nyanza; commanded an expedition under the Khedive into the Soudan; wrote an account of it in a book, "Ismailia"; visited Cyprus ...

Sir Joseph Banks

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A zealous naturalist, particularly in botany; a collector, in lands far and wide, of specimens in natural history; left his collection and a valuable library and herbarium to the British Museum; ...