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Stanley, Edward Smith
Stanley, Edward Smith
Persoon · 1775-1851

Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby was a politician, peer, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist. He was the patron of the writer Edward Lear.

In 1834 he succeeded his father as 13th Earl of Derby and withdrew from politics, instead concentrating on his natural history collection at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. He had a large collection of living animals; at his death there were 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at Knowsley, shipped to England by explorers such as Joseph Burke. From 1828 to 1833 he was President of the Linnean Society. Several species were named after him. He was President of the Zoological Society 1831-1851.
Woods, H
Persoon · fl 1830s
Bradley, Thomas
Persoon · fl 1839

Director of Royal Gallery of Practical Science
Batty, W
Persoon · fl 1851

of Astley's Ampitheatre
Beach, Michael Hicks, Sir
Persoon · 1809-1854

Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, from 1854-1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Due to the length if his service, he was Father of the House from 1901 to 1906, when he took his peerage
Bompas, -
Persoon · fl 1856

Wife of Charles Bompas
Canning, Charles John
Persoon · 1812-1862

Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, also known as The Viscount Canning and Clemency Canning, was a British statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and the first Viceroy of India after the transfer of power from the East India Company to the Crown of Queen Victoria in 1858 after the rebellion was crushed