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Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London 1826-1830
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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.
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fl 1839
Director of Royal Gallery of Practical Science
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fl 1851
of Astley's Ampitheatre
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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
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fl 1856
Wife of Charles Bompas
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1814-1867
Sir Frederick William Adolphus Wright-Bruce, was a British diplomat