Inventors (1571 pages found in this category)


J. S. Grimaldi

English stage actor, comedian, clown and dancer.

Jack and Jill

English nursery rhyme, the earliest known version of which was published in about 1765.

Jack Bologna

Italian actor and dancer who did much to popularise the role of Harlequin in Georgian pantomimes.

Jack Crouch

English racing jockey who died in aircraft crash.

Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard (1702–1724) was a notorious thief in early 18th-century London, wildly popular with the poorer classes.

Jack Sprat

English nursery rhyme first recorded in the form we know it today in 1670.

Jackanory

BBC children's television series originally broadcast from 1965 until 1996.

James Burton

James Burton (1784–1868) was the owner of several cotton mills in Tyldesley and Hindsford in the mid-19th century.

James Ferguson (Scottish politician)

James Ferguson (25 May 1735 – 6 September 1820) was a Scottish advocate and Tory politician and the third Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of northeast Scotland, which is known as the 'Blenheim of the North'.

James Ferguson, 1st Laird of Pitfour

Scottish lawyer and the 1st Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland.