Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.
Oboist, singer and junior naval officer. A member of the musically talented Linley family fathered by Thomas Linley, Samuel first performed on stage in 1766.
Wealthy banker and owner of the Denbies estate in Surrey.
Sculptor born in 1862 Leigh, Lancashire, where her father, James Pownall, was a silk manufacturer.
Last person to be condemned to death for witchcraft in an English court, when she was found guilty at Hertford in 1712.
Alias used by one of the three suffragettes arrested for damaging with hammers the glass of thirteen pictures in Manchester Art Gallery on 3 April 1913.
First British woman racing driver and a women’s world land speed record holder. In 1905 she also established the record for the longest drive by a lady driver when she drove a De Dion-Bouton from London to Liverpool and back over two days.
English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.
One of the 11 men and women found guilty of causing harm by witchcraft in the Pendle witch trials of 1612, unique among the accused in being a respectable wealthy widow.
English author best known for the Lone Pine series of children’s books, published between 1943 and 1978.
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