Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait and landscape painter, founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
English, Male, Painter
Male
English painter, knighted in 1878.
English, Lancashire, Landowner, Male
William Hulton
Landowner who lived at Hulton Hall in Lancashire, notorious for his part in the Peterloo Massacre.
English, Male, Painter
Roger Hampson
Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.
English, Male, Musician, Singer
Samuel Linley
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.
Banker, English, Landowner, Male
Joseph Denison (banker)
Wealthy banker and owner of the Denbies estate in Surrey.
Male, Scottish, Sorcerer, Witch
Richard Graham
Sorcerer, necromancer and wizard. Executed on the last day of February 1592 as part of the North Berwick witch trials, he was an associate of Francis Stewart, fifth Earl of Bothwell.
Folklorist, Male, Scottish, Writer
Ernest W. Marwick
Scottish writer, folklorist and antiquarian particularly noted for his texts on Orkney folklore and history
Landowner, Male, Scottish
George Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Banff
Inherited the lands of Inchdrewer and Montbray in 1668. He was murdered and his body burned at Inchdrewer Castle in 1713.
English, Male, Writer
Malcolm Saville
English author best known for the Lone Pine series of children’s books, published between 1943 and 1978.
