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Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
Pessoa singular · 1850-1916

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War

Hatton, George James Finch-
Pessoa singular · 1815-1887

George James Finch-Hatton was a British peer and Tory politician

Hart, Ernest Abraham
Pessoa singular · 1836-1898

Ernest Abraham Hart was an English medical journalist. He was the editor of The British Medical Journal

Romanes, George John
Pessoa singular · 1848-1894

George John Romanes was a Canadian-Scots evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals. He is considered to invent the term neo-Darwinism, which in the late 19th century was considered as a theory of evolution that focuses on natural selection as the main evolutionary force

Mundy, George Rodney, Sir
Pessoa singular · 1805-1884

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rodney Mundy was a Royal Nacy officer. As a commander, he persuaded the Dutch to surrender Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution and then acted as a mediator during negotiations between the Dutch and the Belgians to end hostilities. As a captain, he was deployed to the East Indies Station and was asked to keep the Sultan of Brunei in line until the British Government made a final decision on whether to take the island of Labuan. He was then deployed to the seas of Finland where he secured Björkö Sound in operations against Russian during the Crimean War

Porter, Sir Robert Ker
Pessoa singular · 1777-1842

Sir Robert Ker Porter was a Scottish artist, author, diplomat and traveller. Known today for his accounts of his travels in Russia, Spain, Portugal and Persia, he was one of the earliest panorama painters in Britain, was appointed historical painter to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and served as British consul in Venezuela

Mattos, Henri Teixiera de
Pessoa singular · 1856-1908

Henri Teixera de Mattos was a 19th-century Dutch sculptor

Semper, Carl Gottfried
Pessoa singular · 1832-1893

Carl Gottfriend Semper was a German ethnologist and animal ecologist

Paget, Alfred Henry, Lord
Pessoa singular · 1816-1888

Lord Alfred Henry Paget was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1865

Phipps, Charles Beaumont, Sir
Pessoa singular · 1801-1866

Colonel Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps was a British soldier and courtier