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Foundling Hospital

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The Foundling Hospital in London, England was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. [1]

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Ackworth, West Yorkshire

Ackworth is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, situated between Pontefract, Barnsley and Doncaster on the small River Went.

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Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont

Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont (167527 February 1740), was a Scottish nobleman, politician and judge.

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Alexander Tweedie

Dr Alexander Tweedie FRS (29 August 1794 – 30 May 1884) was a Scottish physician and writer.

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Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn

Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, PC, KC (3 February 1733 – 2 January 1805) was a Scottish lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1780 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Loughborough.

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Alfred Williams Momerie

Alfred Williams Momerie (1848–1900) was an English cleric and academic of Broad Church views.

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Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst

Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, (16 November 168416 September 1775), known as The Lord Bathurst from 1712 to 1772, was a British politician.

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Althorp

Althorp is a Grade I listed stately home, estate in civil parish of Althorp, in Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England of about.

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Andrea Casali

Andrea Casali (17 November 1705 – 7 September 1784) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.

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Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton

Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton (1689 – 20 September 1751), formerly Lady Anne Vaughan, was the wife of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton.

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Anthony Allen (lawyer)

Anthony Allen (died 11 April 1754) was an English lawyer and antiquary.

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Archibald Hutcheson

Archibald Hutcheson (ca. 1659 – 12 August 1740) was a British Member of Parliament (MP).

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Art of the United Kingdom

The Art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the United Kingdom since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompass English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms part of Western art history.

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Arthur Onslow

Arthur Onslow (1 October 169117 February 1768) was an English politician.

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Ashlyns School

Ashlyns School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England.

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Augusta Triumphans

Augusta Triumphans: or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe by Daniel Defoe was first published on 16 March 1728.

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Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley

Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley, KT (18 February 1715 – 9 January 1755) was the son of Vice-Admiral James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley, and the former Lady Louisa Lennox.

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Augustus Buckland

Rev.

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Baby hatch

A baby hatch or baby box is a place where people (typically mothers) can bring babies, usually newborn, and abandon them anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared for.

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Balthazar Nebot

Balthazar or Balthasar Nebot, was a painter active in England between 1729 and 1765.

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Benedict Nicolson

Lionel Benedict Nicolson (6 August 1914 – 1978) was a British art historian and author.

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Benefit concert

A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.

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Berkhamsted

Berkhamsted is a historic market town close to the western boundary of Hertfordshire, England, in the small Bulbourne valley in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of London.

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Bethlem Royal Hospital

Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London.

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Blackguard Children

The Blackguard Children, sometimes also referred to as the Blackguard Youth, were known as gangs of mostly homeless orphans and runaways who, between the seventeenth and eighteenth century, dwelled in London's poorest neighbourhoods (such as Glass House Yard, Rosemary Lane, and Salt Petre Bank) and made a living by begging and pilfering.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Bloomsbury Rifles

The St Giles's and St George's Bloomsbury Rifle Volunteer Corps, more familiarly known as the Bloomsbury Rifles, was a Volunteer unit of the British Army in London from 1803 to 1814 and from 1860 until 1908.

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Brunswick Square

Brunswick Square is a public garden and ancillary streets along two of its sides in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (7 October 1762 – 4 November 1832), was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench between 1818 and 1832.

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Charles Brooking

Charles Brooking (c.1723–59) was an English painter of marine scenes.

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Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore

Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, KT (27 August 1700 – 5 July 1785) was a Scottish nobleman, known as Beau Colyear for his conspicuous dress.

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Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry

Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover, (1698– 22nd October 1778) was a Scottish nobleman, extensive landowner, Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland.

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Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton

Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, (25 October 1683 – 6 May 1757) was an Irish and English politician.

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Charles Hanbury Williams

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB (8 December 1708 – 2 November 1759) was a Welsh diplomat, writer and satirist.

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Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, (18 May 1701 – 8 August 1750) was a British nobleman, peer, and politician.

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Charles Morton (librarian)

Charles Morton MD (1716–1799) was an English medical doctor and librarian who became the principal librarian of the British Museum.

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Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton

Lieutenant-General Charles Powlett (sometimes spelled Paulet), 3rd Duke of Bolton (3 September 168526 August 1754) was a British nobleman and politician.

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Charles Rowan

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Rowan (circa 1782–8 May 1852) was an officer in the British Army, serving in the Peninsular War and Waterloo and the joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police.

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Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (13 August 1662 – 2 December 1748), known by the epithet "The Proud Duke", was a British peer.

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Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough

Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, (22 November 1706 – 20 October 1758), styled as The Honourable Charles Spencer between 1706 and 1729 and as The Earl of Sunderland between 1729 and 1733, was a British soldier, nobleman, and politician from the Spencer family.

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Charles Wigg

Charles Wigg (1824 – 18 July 1899) was an English manufacturer of chemicals in Runcorn, Cheshire, England.

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Children's hospital

A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children and adolescents.

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Children's rights movement

The Children's Rights Movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgment, expansion, and/or regression of the rights of children around the world.

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Clement Hue

Clement Hue (died 23 June 1861 aged 82) was a British physician.

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Cobham Hall

Cobham Hall is an independent day and boarding school for girls in Cobham, Kent.

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Conyers Darcy

Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, (c. 16851 December 1758) was a British politician and courtier of the 18th century.

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Coram Boy (play)

Coram Boy is a play written by Helen Edmundson with music composed by Adrian Sutton, based on the 2000 children's novel of the same name by Jamila Gavin, an epic adventure that concerns the theme of child cruelty.

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Coram's Fields

Coram's Fields is a large urban open space in the London borough of Camden in central London.

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Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea

Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham, (24 May 16892 August 1769) was a British politician.

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Dudley Ryder (judge)

Sir Dudley Ryder (1691 – 25 May 1756) was a British politician, judge and diarist.

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Dugald Sutherland MacColl

Dugald Sutherland MacColl (10 March 1859 – 21 December 1948) was a Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer.

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Edmund Gibson

Edmund Gibson (1669 – 6 September 1748) was a British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary.

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Edward Haytley

Edward Haytley was an English portrait and landscape painter of the 18th century.

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Elizabeth Brownrigg

Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720 – 14 September 1767) was an 18th-century English murderer.

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Elizabeth Germain

Lady Elizabeth "Betty" Germain (1680-1769) was a wealthy English aristocrat and courtier, a philanthropist and collector of antiquities, who corresponded with literary and political figures.

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Emerald Star (book)

Emerald Star is the 2013 sequel to Hetty Feather and Sapphire Battersea written by best-selling British author Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt.

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Emma Brownlow

Emma Brownlow (1832–1905) was a Victorian era artist who is best known for her paintings depicting scenes from life at the Foundling Hospital in London.

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Felice Giardini

Felice Giardini (12 April 1716 – 8 June 1796) was an Italian composer and violinist.

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Finding of Moses

The Finding of Moses, sometimes called Moses in the Bullrushes, Moses Saved from the Waters, or other variants, is the story in chapter 2 of the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible of the finding in the River Nile of Moses as a baby by the daughter of Pharoah.

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Foundling

Foundling may refer to.

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Foundling hospital

A foundling hospital was originally an institution for the reception of foundlings, i.e., children who had been abandoned or exposed, and left for the public to find and save.

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Foundling Hospital Anthem

The Foundling Hospital Anthem (HWV 268), also known by its longer title "Blessed are they that considereth the poor", is a choral anthem composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749.

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Foundling Museum

The Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, London tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children.

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Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer

Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer PC FRS (December 1708 – 11 December 1781) was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club.

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Francis Fauquier

Francis Fauquier (1703 – 3 March 1768) was a Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony (in what is today the United States), and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768.

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Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin

Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, (3 September 167817 January 1766) was an English nobleman, courtier and philanthropist, styled Viscount Rialton 1706–1712.

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Frederic John Poynton

Dr.

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Frederick Cornewall

Captain Frederick Cornewall (1706 – 4 August 1788) was an officer in the British Royal Navy.

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Frederick North, Lord North

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, (13 April 17325 August 1792), better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790 was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.

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George Berkeley

George Berkeley (12 March 168514 January 1753) — known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne) — was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).

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George Burrow Gregory

George Burrow Gregory (29 January 1813 – 5 March 1892) was an English lawyer and Conservative politician.

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George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley

George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (2 January 1703 – 10 June 1770), styled as Viscount Malpas from 1725 to 1733, was a British peer and Whig politician.

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George Croly

George Croly (August 17, 1780 – November 24, 1860) was an Irish poet, novelist, historian, and Anglican priest.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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George Gregory (British writer)

The Rev.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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George Lambert (English painter)

George Lambert (1700 – 30 November 1765) was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter.

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George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield

George Henry Lee I, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (12 March 1690 – 15 February 1743) was the sixth son of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield and his wife Charlotte Fitzroy, an illegitimate daughter of Charles II by his mistress, the celebrated courtesan Barbara Villiers.

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George Leith Roupell

George Leith Roupell M.D. FRS (1797–1854) was an English physician.

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George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, PRS (c. 1695 or 1697 – 17 March 1764) was an English peer and astronomer.

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George Wade

Field Marshal George Wade (1673 – 14 March 1748) was a British Army officer who served in the Nine Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession, Jacobite rising of 1715 and War of the Quadruple Alliance before leading the construction of barracks, bridges and proper roads in Scotland.

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George Whatley

George Whatley, Esq, was a contemporary, friend and correspondent of Benjamin Franklin.

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Gerrard Andrewes

Gerrard Andrewes (1750–1825) was an English churchman, Dean of Canterbury from 1809.

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Gustavus Waltz

Gustavus Waltz (fl. 1732-1759) was a German bass opera singer who collaborated with Handel which began in 1732.

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Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753) was an Irish physician, naturalist and collector noted for bequeathing his collection to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum.

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Hemsworth Rural District

Hemsworth was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804.

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Henry Bevington

Henry Bevington (c. 1769 - 1850) was a prolific organ builder in London during the Victorian era.

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Henry Currey (architect)

Henry Currey (1820–1900) was an English architect and surveyor.

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Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham

Henry de Nassau, Lord d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham (born Hendrik van Nassau, 16735 December 1754), was a British peer and courtier, a member of the House of Orange-Nassau and second cousin once removed to King William III of England.

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Henry Earle

Henry Earle FRS (1789–1838) was an English surgeon.

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Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, KG, PC (1671 – 5 June 1740) was a British politician and courtier.

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Henry Pelham

Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death.

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Henry Pollock

Sir Henry Edward Pollock, QC, JP (16 December 1864 – 2 February 1953) was an English barrister who became a prominent politician in Hong Kong.

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Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort

Henry Somerset-Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (23 March 1707 – 26 February 1745) born Henry Somerset, was an English nobleman and peer.

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Hetty Feather

Hetty Feather is a book by best-selling author Jacqueline Wilson.

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Hetty Feather (TV series)

Hetty Feather is a British children's drama, which focuses on the life of the title character, who was abandoned as a baby and lives in a Foundling Hospital in London.

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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, (8 December 16785 February 1757), English diplomatist, was a son of Robert Walpole of Houghton, Norfolk, and a younger brother of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Robert Walpole.

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Infanticide

Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants.

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Isabella Young

Isabella Young (also Isabella Scott) (17?, London – 12 August 1791, London) was an English mezzo-soprano and organist who had a successful career as a concert performer and opera singer during the latter half of the eighteenth century.

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James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, (6 January 1673 in Dewsall, Herefordshire9 August 1744 in Cannons) was the first of fourteen children of the 8th Baron Chandos and Elizabeth Barnard.

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James Bunstone Bunning

James Bunstone Bunning (6 October 1802 – 2 November 1863) was a British architect.

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James Burton (property developer)

James Burton (born James Haliburton; 29 July 1761 – 31 March 1837) was the most successful property developer of Regency and Georgian London: he was "probably the most significant builder of Georgian London." He built the majority of the Bloomsbury district; Chester Terrace, Cornwall Terrace, Clarence Terrace, and York Terrace at Regent's Park; Russell Square; and Tavistock Square.

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James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury

James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (20 October 1713 – 19 September 1780) was a British nobleman, politician, and peer, the son of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury and a member of one of England's greatest political dynasties.

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James Gibbs

James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects.

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James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose

James Graham, 1st Duke and 4th Marquess of Montrose (April 16827 January 1742) was a Scottish aristocratic statesman in the early eighteenth century.

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James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton

James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton and 2nd Duke of Brandon KT FRS (5 January 1703 – 2 March 1743) was a Scottish peer, the son of the 4th Duke of Hamilton.

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James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn

James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn (22 March 168611 January 1744), styled Lord Paisley from 1701 to 1734, was a Scottish and Irish nobleman and peer.

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James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave

James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave, (1684 – 11 April 1741) was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Austria and France.

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Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin (born 9 August 1941) is a British writer born in Mussoorie in the United Provinces of India, in the present-day state of Uttarakhand in the Western Himalayas.

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Jean Allister

Jean Allister (26 February 1932 – 11 July 2012) was an opera singer who encompassed a wide range of repertoire both on stage and on the concert platform in a career spanning over 30 years.

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John Belchier

John Belchier (1706 – 6 February 1785) was a British surgeon at Guy's Hospital from 1736 to 1768.

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John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, (22 April 1690 – 2 January 1763), commonly known by his earlier title Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763; he worked extremely closely with the Prime Minister of the country, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, in order to manage the various factions of the Government.

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John Christopher Smith

John Christopher Smith (born Johann Christoph Schmidt; 1712, Ansbach1795, London) was an English composer who, following in his father's footsteps, became George Frideric Handel's secretary and amanuensis.

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John Church (minister)

John Church (1780 – c. 1835) was an Independent minister who was most famous for his involvement in the homosexual scandal of the Vere Street Coterie.

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John Gonson

Sir John Gonson (died 1765) was an English judge for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, serving as a Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the City of Westminster.

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John Hampden (1696–1754)

John Hampden (c. 1696 – 4 February 1754), an English politician, was the second son of John Hampden.

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John Hebden

John Hebden (1712–1765) was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain.

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John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey

John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, (13 October 16965 August 1743) was an English courtier and political writer and memoirist who was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth.

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John Hewlett

John Hewlett (1762–13 April 1844) was a prominent biblical scholar in nineteenth-century England.

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John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe

John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, KG, PC, FRS (30 April 1680–27 February 1741) was the second son of Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe, and Margaret Hay, daughter of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale.

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John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower

John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (10 August 169425 December 1754),George Edward Cokayne, editor.

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John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland

John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland KG PC (21 October 1696 – 29 May 1779) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and Catherine Russell.

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John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu

John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, (1690 – 5 July 1749), styled Viscount Monthermer until 1705 and Marquess of Monthermer between 1705 and 1709, was a British peer.

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John Mordaunt (British Army officer)

General Sir John Mordaunt (1697 – 23 October 1780) was a British soldier and Whig politician, the son of Lieutenant-General Harry Mordaunt and Margaret Spencer.

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John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (30 September 17105 January 1771) was an 18th-century British statesman.

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John Spencer (British politician)

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John Stanley (composer)

Charles John Stanley (17 January 1712 Old Style – 19 May 1786) was an English composer and organist.

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Jonas Hanway

Jonas Hanway (12 August 1712 – 5 September 1786), was an English traveller and philanthropist.

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Joseph Highmore

Joseph Highmore (13 June 1692 – 3 March 1780) was an English portrait and historical painter, illustrator and author.

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Joseph Kay (architect)

Joseph Kay (17751847) was an English architect, particularly active in the early years of the 19th century, and associated with the layout of central Greenwich and with Hastings.

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Josiah Forshall

Josiah Forshall (29 March 1795 – 18 December 1863) was an English librarian.

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Julian Herbage

Julian Livingstone Herbage (10 September 1904– 15 January 1976) was a musicologist, broadcaster and member of the BBC music department.

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June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury

June Kathleen Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury DBE, MB ChB, MRCP, DPH, MD, FRCP, FRCP Edin, Hon DSc Bristol, Hon DSc Birm, Fellow of the FRCGP (1 January 1928 – 28 June 2006) was a British paediatrician and, in retirement, a cross bench member of the House of Lords.

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Lamb's Conduit Field

Lamb's Conduit Field was an open area of Holborn, London, that was a noted cricket venue in the first half of the 18th century.

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Lancelot Blackburne

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Lewis Page Mercier

Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It.

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Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset

Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (18 January 1688 – 10 October 1765) was an English political leader and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

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Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine is a scholar of 18th-century British literature, whose interests include cultural historicism, narrative theory, and cognitive approaches to literary and cultural studies (with a particular emphasis on Theory of mind and fiction).

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List of children's hospitals

This is a list of children's hospitals, hospitals that specialize in pediatrics.

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List of compositions by George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German–English Baroque composer who is famous for his operas, oratorios and concerti grossi.

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List of demolished buildings and structures in London

This list of demolished buildings and structures in London lists buildings, structures and urban scenes of particular architectural, historical, scenic or social interest in central London which are preserved in old photographs, prints and paintings, but which have been demolished or were destroyed by bombing in World War II.

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List of eponymous roads in London

The following is a partial list of eponymous roads in London – that is, roads named after people – with notes on the link between the road and the person.

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List of museums in London

This is a list of museums in London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom.

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List of organisations with a British royal charter

List of organisations with a British royal charter is an incomplete list of organisations based both on in and over the United Kingdom and throughout the world, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.

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London Metropolitan Archives

The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is the principal local government archive repository for the Greater London area, including the City of London: it is the largest county record office in the United Kingdom.

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Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.

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Magdalene asylum

Magdalene laundries, also known as Magdalene's asylums, were institutions from the 18th to the late 20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity or work in prostitution.

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March 29

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Martin Folkes

Martin Folkes PRS FRS (29 October 1690 – 28 June 1754), was an English antiquary, numismatist, mathematician, and astronomer.

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Mecklenburgh Square

Mecklenburgh Square is a Grade II listed square located in the Kings Cross area of central London.

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Messiah (Handel)

Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer.

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Monro of Fyrish

The Monro of Fyrish family were a Scottish family and branch of the ancient highland Clan Munro.

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Morris Levy

Morris Levy (August 27, 1927 – May 21, 1990) was an American jazz club, music publishing, and independent record industry entrepreneur, widely known as the founder and owner of Roulette Records and the owner of the Birdland jazz club and the Roulette Room.

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Mr. Brownlow

Mr.

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Music for the Royal Fireworks

The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) is a suite for wind instruments composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749.

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Nancy Dawson

Nancy Dawson was the stage name of Ann Newton (c.1728-1767), a London dancer and actress.

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No Thoroughfare

No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.

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Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans—children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to take care of them.

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Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (29 April 16861 January 1742), styled The Honourable Peregrine Bertie between 1686 and 1704, Lord Willoughby de Eresby between 1704 and 1715 and Marquess of Lindsey between 1715 and 1723, was a British nobleman and statesman.

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Peter Collinson (botanist)

Peter Collinson FRS (January 1694 – 11 August 1768) was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an avid gardener, and the middleman for an international exchange of scientific ideas in mid-18th century London.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, (22 September 169424 March 1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time.

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Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke FRS (9 March 1720 – 16 May 1790) was an English politician.

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Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram

Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram is a 1740 portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram painted by William Hogarth.

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Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, (Adolphus Frederick; 24 February 1774 – 8 July 1850) was the tenth child and seventh son of the British king George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, (George William Frederick Charles; 26 March 1819 – 17 March 1904) was a member of the British Royal Family, a male-line grandson of King George III, cousin of Queen Victoria, and maternal uncle of Queen Mary, consort of King George V. The Duke was an army officer by profession and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces (military head of the British Army) from 1856 to 1895.

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Rachel Kneebone

Rachel Kneebone (born 1973) is an English artist, who lives and works in London.

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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was an Anglo-Irish architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl".

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Richard Glover (poet)

Richard Glover (1712 – 25 November 1785) was an English poet and politician.

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Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, (26 September 171112 September 1779) was a British politician.

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Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (30 November 1686 – 29 January 1740) was a British Whig politician, known as Viscount Lumley from 1710 to 1721.

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Richard Mayne

Sir Richard Mayne KCB (27 November 1796 – 26 December 1868) was a barrister and the joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829–1868).

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Richard Mead

Richard Mead (11 August 1673 – 16 February 1754) was an English physician.

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Robert Taylor (architect)

Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) was a notable English architect of the mid- to late 18th century.

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Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe is a residential district in south east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, often referred to as the RCPCH, is the professional body for paediatricians (doctors specialising in child health) in the United Kingdom.

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Sabrina Sidney

Sabrina Bicknell (1757 – 8 September 1843), better known as Sabrina Sidney, was a British foundling girl taken in when she was 12 by author Thomas Day, who wanted to mould her into his perfect wife.

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Saint Peter's Singers of Leeds

Saint Peter's Singers (SPS) is a chamber choir associated with Leeds Minster, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England that celebrated during the Season 2017/2018 the fortieth anniversary of the choir's formation by Harry Fearnley in 1977.

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Samuel Ayscough

Samuel Ayscough (1745–1804) was a librarian and indexer, who was described as the "Prince of Index Makers".

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Samuel Gale

Samuel Gale (1682–1754) was an English antiquary, a founder of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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Samuel Pepys Cockerell

Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827) was an English architect.

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Samuel Wesley

Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period.

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Sapphire Battersea

Sapphire Battersea is the 2011 sequel to Hetty Feather, written by best selling English author Jacqueline Wilson.

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Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet

Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet (25 July 1813 – 8 May 1900) was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885.

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Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet

Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet (c. 1695 – 4 August 1775), was an English art collector and landowner, and a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain.

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Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet

Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, FRS (1673 – 2 January 1755) was an English landowner, politician and industrialist.

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Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet

Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet (27 April 1750 – 1 July 1818) was an English social reformer whose father, as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1760–1770), played a responsible part in directing the British policy which led to the revolt of the American colonies.

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Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet (24 September 1677 – 7 May 1746) was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality.

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Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet

Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (c. 1688 – 17 June 1740), of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, was an English Tory statesman, who served as Secretary at War in 1712 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1702–1714).

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Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet

Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet (c. 169310 August 1755),, of Escot House in the parish of Talaton in Devon, was an English politician.

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Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, (– 2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death.

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St Andrew Holborn (church)

The Church of St Andrew, Holborn is a Church of England church on the northwestern edge of the City of London, on Holborn within the Ward of Farringdon Without.

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Street names of Bloomsbury

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Bloomsbury.

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Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric.

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Taylor White

Taylor White (21 December 1701 – 27 March 1772) was a British jurist, naturalist, and art collector.

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The March of the Guards to Finchley

The March of the Guards to Finchley, also known as The March to Finchley or The March of the Guards, is a 1750 oil-on-canvas painting by English artist William Hogarth, owned by and on display at the Foundling Museum.

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Thomas Archer

Thomas Archer (1668–1743) was an English Baroque architect, whose work is somewhat overshadowed by that of his contemporaries Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

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Thomas Cadell (publisher)

Thomas Cadell (1742–1802) was a successful 18th-century English bookseller who published works by some of the most famous writers of the 18th century.

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Thomas Coram

Captain Thomas Coram (c. 1668 – 29 March 1751) was a philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children.

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Thomas Coram Foundation for Children

The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children is a large children's charity in London which uses the working name Coram (formerly Coram Family).

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Thomas Linley the elder

Thomas Linley (17 January 1733 – 19 November 1795) was an English bass and musician active in Bath, Somerset.

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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, (21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768) was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century.

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Thomas Wormald

Thomas Wormald (1802−1873) was an English surgeon.

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Timeline of London

The following is a timeline of the history of London, the capital of England in the United Kingdom.

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Timeline of young people's rights in the United Kingdom

The timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom includes a variety of events that are both political and grassroots in nature.

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Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere

Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (14 July 1699 – 21 October 1781), known as Lord Vere Beauclerk until 1750, was a Royal Navy officer, British peer and politician.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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Walter Jessop (surgeon)

Walter Hamilton Hylton Jessop FRCS (1853–1917), Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy and physiology (1887-8), Ophthalmic Surgeon (to the Western General Dispensary, the Foundling Hospital and to the Children's Hospital at Paddington Green), Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital (1901), President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom (1915–17) and someone who ‘made a unique position for himself in the ophthalmological world and was probably the best known of English ophthalmic surgeons to his brethren on the Continent of Europe’.

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Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle

Lieutenant-General Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (5 June 1702 – 22 December 1754) was a British diplomat and courtier.

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William Behnes

William Behnes (1795 – 3 January 1864) was an English sculptor of the early 19th century.

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William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1 March 1709 – 1 May 1762), styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1715 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1715 to 1726, was a British peer and politician.

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William Buchan (physician)

William Buchan (1729 – 25 February 1805) was a Scottish physician and author.

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William Byron, 5th Baron Byron

William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron who succeeded him.

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William Cadogan (childcare writer)

William Cadogan (1711 – 26 February 1797) was an 18th-century British physician and writer on child care and nursing.

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William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex

William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, (11 January 16978 January 1743) was an English courtier and diplomat.

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William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire

William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, (26 September 1698 – 5 December 1755) was a British nobleman and Whig politician.

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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and Tory politician of the late Georgian era.

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William Cheselden

William Cheselden (19 October 1688 – 10 April 1752) was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession.

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William Cowper (doctor)

William Cowper (1701 – 12 October 1767) was a British doctor and antiquarian.

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William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven

William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven (1700 – 10 August 1739) was an English nobleman.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.

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William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth

William Legge 2nd Earl of Dartmouth PC, FRS (20 June 1731 – 15 July 1801), styled as Viscount Lewisham from 1732 to 1750, was a British statesman who is most remembered for his part in the government before and during the American Revolution, and as the namesake of Dartmouth College.

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William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester

William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester, KB (April 1700 – 21 October 1739) was the son of Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester.

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William Russell (organist)

William Russell (6 October 1777 – 21 November 1813) was an English organist and composer.

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William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey

William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, 6th Viscount Grandison, (died 28 August 1769) was an English peer and politician from the Villiers family.

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1739

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1739 English cricket season

1739 was the 43rd English cricket season since the earliest known important match was played.

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1739 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1739 in Great Britain.

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1742

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1742 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1742 in Great Britain.

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1753 in music

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1758 in art

Events from the year 1758 in art.

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1767

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1921 Birthday Honours

The 1921 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundling_Hospital

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