William Marsden

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Born	November 16, 1754 • Ireland
Died	October 6, 1836 (aged 81) • Herefordshire • England
Subjects Of Study	Sumatra

Raja Ali Haji bin Raja Amhad

Bugis-Malay prince, historian, and scholar

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Robert Clive

British colonial administrator

Quentin Skinner

British historian

E.P. Thompson

British historian

Arnold J. Toynbee

British historian

J.B. Bury

British scholar

James Anthony Froude

British historian

Sir Eyre Coote

British soldier

James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

British statesman

Sir Isaiah Berlin

British historian

A.L. Rowse

British historian and writer

J.F.C. Fuller

British army officer

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx

Cistercian monk

Sir Basil Liddell Hart

British military historian

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton

British historian

V. Gordon Childe

British historian and archaeologist

George Pigot, Baron Pigot

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A.N. Wilson

English writer

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, sepia drawing by George Frederick Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet

British law scholar

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