Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, was a Royal Navy officer famous for daring attacks during the Napoleonic Wars. A reforming member of parliament, he was […]
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Thomas Culpeper
2 booksThomas Culpeper was a gentleman of Henry VIII’s privy chamber and a courtier with close access to the king. He became associated with Catherine Howard during […]
Thomas More
2 booksThomas More was a lawyer, humanist scholar and author of Utopia who became lord chancellor under Henry VIII. Although he supported the prosecution of religious dissent, […]
Thomas Winter
2 booksThomas Winter, more commonly written Thomas Wintour, was a member of the group that planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A committed Catholic, he travelled to […]
Veleda
2 booksVeleda was a Germanic seeress associated with the Batavian revolt against Rome in the first century AD. Roman sources present her as a prophetic and political […]
Wilfred Owen
2 booksWilfred Owen was a British soldier and poet whose work described the physical horror, pity and psychological damage of the First World War. Treated for shell […]
William Bligh
2 booksWilliam Bligh was a British naval officer best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789. He later served as governor of New South Wales, […]
William Carey
2 booksWilliam Carey was a courtier and member of Henry VIII’s household who married Mary Boleyn in 1520. During the marriage Mary became the king’s mistress, and […]
William Holland Thomas
2 booksWilliam Holland Thomas was a white lawyer, merchant and politician who was adopted into the Cherokee community and became a trusted associate of the chief Yonaguska. […]
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
2 booksWilliam Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, was a British general who commanded during the early years of the American Revolutionary War. He led troops at Bunker Hill, […]