Rich began his artistic career working for a firm of heraldic painters from 1870 until 1890, when he started studying at the Slade School of art. His first public exhibition was at his studio in ...

Younghusband's interests lay in problems of the poor, and whilst a full-time lecturer at the London School of Economics (1933-57), she devoted her spare time to the Citizens' Advice Bureaux, care ...

Born in Genoa, Italy, Lazarus and his brother Baptista Colleredo were Italian conjoined twins. To make a living, Lazarus toured around Europe and visited many places including Basel, Switzerland and ...

Thomas Chaloner was a talented diplomat and scholar who served under four Tudor monarchs. He survived shipwreck off the cost of Algeria in 1541, and was knighted after fighting in England's defeat of ...

Edward Wakefield began his study of colonial affairs in 1826 while serving a three- year sentence for an illegal marriage in a London gaol. He focused on the depressed condition of the Australian ...

Charles Inglis was a Canadian clergyman and educator who became the first Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia. Inglis went to North America and became a master in a church school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ...

Studied medicine and was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1828. In 1833, he travelled to Jamaica working as a magistrate to judge disputes between black apprentices and their white masters ...

(1761 or 1769-1852), Engraver and antiquary; father of Sir Edwin Landseer ...

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