Inventors (1570 pages found in this category)


Heavy Woollen District

Area of West Yorkshire whose prosperity rested on the manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling.

Heber Hart

English judge and jurist (1865–1948) who specialised in commercial and banking law.

Helen Duncan

Last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735, in 1944.

Hellish Nell

Redirected to Helen Duncan.

Henry Ernest Milner

English civil engineer and landscape architect

Henry Fuseli

Swiss-born British Romantic artist (1741–1825), who established a reputation for his paintings depicting the horrifying and fantastic.

Henry Garnet

English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Henry Goodcole

Chaplain of Newgate Prison and author of criminal biographies, the most important of which is that of Elizabeth Sawyer.

Herbert Campbell

English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era.

Heriot

Feudal form of inheritance tax that persisted until 1922.