A late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century soldier turned historian, author of The Chronicle of John Hardyng, printed in London by Grafton in 1543 and recently suggested as a source for Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.
The 1st Earl Harcourt, known as the Viscount Harcourt between 1727 and 1749, Simon Harcourt was a British general and diplomat who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772 to 1776.
The 2nd Earl Harcourt, styled Viscount Nuneham until inheriting the title of Earl Harcourt in 1777, George Harcourt was an English politician and patron of the arts.
Carthaginian statesman and general leading the forces of Carthage against Rome during the Second Punic War. Alongside Scipio Africanus and Alexander the Great, Hannibal is considered to be one of the greatest military minds of Mediterranean antiquity.
Known mostly for his political career, Hanmer also made a few minor contributions to the field of literature.
German composer who emigrated to London, Handel was a prolific and much loved author of well over 100 operas, oratorios, concertos, and other musical pieces, including his most famous work, Messiah (1742). An extremely abbreviated list of a few other major works includes Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (1713), Water Music (1717), Acis and Galatea (1718), The Harmonious Blacksmith (1720), Giulio Cesare (1724), Tamerlano (1724), Zadok the Priest (1727), Alcina (1735), Alexander's Feast (1736), Ode for St.
English poet and politician, best remembered for his elegies.
English official, politician, poet, and pamphleteer who was admitted to St. John's College at Cambridge in 1685. A popular though probably apocryphal story states that Hammond found young Susanna Centlivre weeping at the side of the road and decided to smuggle her into St. John's College, where she attended class under the guise of a man.
Title character in William Shakespeare's c. 1660-1661 play.
First son of Elizabeth Campbell, duchess of Hamilton and Argyll. James died from an illness in 1769 at the age of fourteen.
