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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) historian
Henry Walton (1746 - 1813)
Edward R Daniell (active 1820-40) legal historian
Timothy Butler (1806 - )
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) author, biographer, and historian
Thomas Woolner (1825 - 1892)
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright (1840-1903) politician and historian
(Alexander von) Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1839 - 1898)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) politician and historian [identity uncertain]
Cornelius Johnson (1593 - 1661)
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