People

c. 13th century BCE–1157 BCE

Ramesses IV was a pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty who succeeded Ramesses III after the harem conspiracy. He expanded quarrying and building projects and sought to […]

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1857–1941

Robert Baden-Powell was a British Army officer and founder of the Scout movement. His fame grew after the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War, […]

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1573–1605

Robert Catesby was the principal organiser of the Gunpowder Plot. Frustrated by the failure of relief for English Catholics, he recruited conspirators for an attempt to […]

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1725–1774

Clive travelled to India as an East India Company clerk and entered its military service during conflict with French and Indian forces. His defence of Arcot […]

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1054–1134

Robert Curthose was the eldest son of William the Conqueror and duke of Normandy. He took part in the First Crusade but later lost Normandy to […]

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1104–1168

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, was an Anglo-Norman magnate and royal official active under Stephen and Henry II. He and his twin brother Waleran […]

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Robert Dinwiddie was lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758. He pressed British claims in the Ohio Country, sent George Washington to warn French […]

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1492–1549

Robert Kett was a Norfolk landholder who became leader of the 1549 uprising against enclosure and local abuses. He organised a large rebel camp at Mousehold […]

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c. 11th century–1148

Roger de Clinton was bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1129 until 1148. A relative of the royal official Geoffrey de Clinton, he owed his advancement […]

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c. 460–after 507

Romulus Augustus was installed as emperor in 475 by his father, the military commander Orestes, after the expulsion of Julius Nepos. His authority was limited to […]

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