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50 Georgian era figures

Royals, politicians, soldiers, writers, artists, explorers, socialites, inventers, thinkers and industrialists from Britain and Ireland active between 1714 and 1830.
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Hero of Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
Pacific explorer killed in Hawaii
James Cook
The ultimate dandy
Beau Brummell
The Tyger poet
William Blake
Emigre wax sculptor
Marie Tussaud
Scottish enlightenment empiricist
David Hume
Celebrity actress
Sarah Siddons
Painted Whistlejacket and other horses
George Stubbs
Surveyed the Pacific northwest
George Vancouver
First prime minister
Robert Walpole
Ode to a Nightingale poet
John Keats
Greatest Napoleonic war prime minister
William Pitt (the Younger)
Nabob and victor of Plassey
Robert Clive
Victor of Quebec
James Wolfe
Oafish regent
George IV
She explored the Levant
Hester Stanhope
Pioneer of methodism
John Wesley
Hero of the Nile and Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet
George Gordon Byron
Early European explorer in Africa
Mungo Park
Powerful mistress of George IV
Maria Fitzherbert
Defeated at Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis
Romantic poet of nature
William Wordsworth
Satirist and cartoonist
James Gillray
Leading potter
Josiah Wedgwood
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'Mad' king
George III
Botanical collector
Joseph Banks
Portrait painter of the 'Grand Style'
Joshua Reynolds
Vaccine pioneer
Edward Jenner
Provoked his crew to mutiny
William Bligh
Father of economics
Adam Smith
Address to a Haggis poet
Robert Burns
PM who lost America
Frederick North
Industrialist and inventor behind the spinning frame
Richard Arkwright
Society portraitist of Mr and Mrs Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough
Aphorist, essayist, dictionary writer
Samuel Johnson
Landscape garden pioneer
Capability Brown
Mistress of naval hero
Emma Hamilton
Father of modern conservatism
Edmund Burke
Abolitionist leader
William Wilberforce
Scottish steam engineer
James Watt
Women's rights activist, mother of Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Jacobite 'Young Pretender'
Prince Charles Eduard Stuart
Pride and Prejudice author
Jane Austin
Charted the decline of Rome
Edward Gibbon
Noted highwayman
Dick Turpin
Engraver of rakes and gin palaces
William Hogarth
Neoclassical architect whose house is a London landmark
John Soane
Diarist and novelist who married a French general
Fanny Burney
Regent's estranged wife
Caroline of Brunswick
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