UK Genealogy Resources
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relating to all of the UK England,
Scotland,
Wales
and Ireland.
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- Alfred
Tennyson (1809-1892) Lord Tennyson, poet.
- Arthur
Wellesley Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) soldier and statesman
- Benjamin
Disraeli (1804-1881) 1st Earl of Beconsfield, prime-minister.
- Captain
James Cook (1728-1779) English captain and explorer; explored
and mapped coasts of New Zealand and Australia; 1st European to
visit Hawaiian islands 1778
- Charles
Dickens (1812-1870) author, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations.
- Charles
Robert Darwin (1809-1882) naturalist, originator of the evolution
theory.
- Charlotte
Bronte (1816-1855) author, poet. Pen name: Currer Bell.
- Diana
Frances Spencer; Lady Di, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) British
princess; wife of Prince Charles 1981 (separated 1992; divorced
1996); died in automobile accident in Paris
- Elizabeth
Gaskell (1810-1865) novelist, Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters.
- Florence
Nightingale (1820-1910) nurse and hospital reformer.
- George
Burrough (1650-1692) Puritan minister who served in Salem
Village, left over a salary dispute, and later was called back
as an accused witch in the infamous 1692 Salem Witch Trials.
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George Stephenson (1781-1848) &
Robert
Stephenson, son (1819-1905) English inventor and railroad
pioneer; built alocomotive in 1814; invented steam-blast locomotive
engine (patented 1815); invented miner's safety lamp, 1815.
- Karl
Marx (1818-1883) political theorist who inspired communism.
- Lewis
Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) English author,
puzzle creator, and recreational mathematician; wrote novels "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland" 1865
- Mary
Stuart (1542-1586) Queen of Scots's was made Queen at just
a week old, widowed at 18, and executed at 44.
- Queen
Victoria, Alexandrina Victoria (1819-1901) British ruler;
Queen of Britain 1837-1901 (last ruler of House of Hanover); empress
of India 1876-1901; granddaughter of George III
- William
Bradford (1590-1657) American Pilgrim leader; 2nd governor
of Plymouth colony
- William
Gladstone (1809-1898) statesman, prime-minister.
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) greatest English dramatist and poet;
wrote 154 sonnets, and plays.
- William
Wordsworth (1770-1850) poet.
- Winston
Churchill (1874-1965) statesman, war time prime-minister.
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