British and Irish History: Biographies

• AEthelbald

• AEthelbert (560-616)

• Alan Francis Brooke 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

• Albert Reynolds

• Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Baron Home of the Hirsel

• Alexander Stuart duke of Albany

• Alexander Stuart earl of Buchan

• Alexandra

• Alfred

• Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner

• Alfred Moritz Mond 1st Baron Melchett

• Algernon Sidney

• Amy Robsart

• Andrew Bonar Law

• Andrew Browne Cunningham 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

• Andrew Fletcher

• Aneurin Bevan

• Anne

• Anne Boleyn

• Anne of Bohemia

• Anne of Cleves

• Anne of Denmark

• Anthony Ashley Cooper 1st earl of Shaftesbury

• Anthony Babington

• Anthony Eden 1st earl of Avon

• Anthony Wedgwood Benn

• Arabella Stuart

• Archibald Campbell 3d duke of Argyll

• Archibald Campbell 5th earl of Argyll

• Archibald Douglas 3d earl of Douglas

• Archibald Douglas 4th earl of Douglas

• Archibald Douglas 5th earl of Angus

• Archibald Douglas 5th earl of Douglas

• Archibald Douglas 6th earl of Angus

• Archibald Percival Wavell 1st Earl Wavell

• Archibald Philip Primrose 5th earl of Rosebery

• Arnold Joost van Keppel 1st earl of Albemarle

• Arthur Griffith

• Arthur Henderson

• Arthur Thistlewood

• Arthur Wellesley 1st duke of Wellington

• Arthur William Tedder 1st Baron Tedder

• Athelstan

• Augustus Henry Fitzroy 3d duke of Grafton

• Aymer de Valence earl of Pembroke

• Baring

• Baron Clyde Colin Campbell

• Baron Thomas Egerton Ellesmere

• Basil Stanlake Brooke 1st Viscount Brookeborough

• Battenberg

• Bertie Ahern

• Blondel de Nesle

• Boadicea

• Brian Boru

• Brian Faulkner

• Bulstrode Whitelocke

• Cadwaladr

• Canute

• Caractacus

• Caroline of Brunswick

• Cartimandua

• Cassivellaunus

• Catherine Howard

• Catherine of Braganza

• Catherine of Valois

• Catherine Parr

• Cecil John Rhodes

• Charles Boyle 4th earl of Orrery

• Charles Brandon 1st duke of Suffolk

• Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis

• Charles Edward Stuart

• Charles George Gordon

• Charles Grey 2d Earl Grey

• Charles Howard 1st earl of Carlisle

• Charles Howard 1st earl of Nottingham

• Charles II (England)

• Charles James Fox

• Charles James Haughey

• Charles John Canning Earl Canning

• Charles Montagu earl of Halifax

• Charles Mordaunt 3d earl of Peterborough

• Charles Neville 6th earl of Westmorland

• Charles Pratt 1st Earl Camden

• Charles Spencer 3d earl of Sunderland

• Charles Stewart Parnell

• Charles Talbot duke of Shrewsbury

• Charles Townshend

• Charles Townshend 2d Viscount Townshend

• Charles Watson-Wentworth 2d marquess of Rockingham

• Christopher Newport

• Clement Richard Attlee 1st Earl Attlee

• Connop Thirlwall

• Cymbeline

• Daniel Finch Nottingham

• Daniel OConnell

• David Beatty 1st Earl Beatty

• David I

• David Leslie

• David Lloyd George 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor

• David Rizzio

• David Stuart duke of Rothesay

• David William Duncan Cameron

• Denis William Brogan

• Dermot McMurrough

• Dick Turpin

• Diego Sarmiento de Acuna conde de Gondomar

• Donald Cameron of Lochiel

• Douglas Haig 1st Earl Haig

• Douglas Hurd

• Eamon De Valera

• earl of Cornwall Richard

• earls of March

• Edgar

• Edgar Atheling

• Edith Cavell

• Edmund

• Edmund de Mortimer 3d earl of March and 1st earl of Ulster

• Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby 1st Viscount Allenby

• Edmund Ironside

• Edmund Ludlow

• Edmund of Langley duke of York

• Edred

• Edward 3d duke of Buckingham Stafford

• Edward Boscawen

• Edward Bruce

• Edward Cardwell Viscount Cardwell

• Edward duke of York

• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood 1st earl of Halifax

• Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley 14th earl of Derby

• Edward Gibbon Wakefield

• Edward Grey 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

• Edward Henry Carson Baron Carson

• Edward Henry Stanley 15th earl of Derby

• Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon

• Edward I

• Edward II

• Edward III

• Edward IV

• Edward Law 1st Baron Ellenborough

• Edward Law 1st earl of Ellenborough

• Edward Montagu 1st earl of Sandwich

• Edward Seymour duke of Somerset

• Edward the Black Prince

• Edward the Confessor

• Edward the Elder

• Edward the Martyr

• Edward Thurlow 1st Baron Thurlow

• Edward V

• Edward Vernon

• Edward VI

• Edward VII

• Edward VIII

• Edwin

• Edwy

• Egbert

• Eleanor of Aquitaine

• Eleanor of Castile

• Eleanor of Provence

• Elizabeth Barton

• Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth II

• Elizabeth Talbot countess of Shrewsbury

• Elizabeth Woodville

• Ellen Wilkinson

• Emma Lady Hamilton

• Enoch Powell

• Ernest Bevin

• Esme Stuart 1st duke of Lennox

• Evelyn Baring 1st earl of Cromer

• Feargus OConnor

• Fitzroy James Henry Somerset 1st Baron Raglan

• Flora Macdonald

• Francis Aidan Gasquet

• Francis Nicholson

• Frederic Harrison

• Frederick Augustus duke of York

• Frederick Edwin Smith 1st earl of Birkenhead

• Frederick John Robinson 1st earl of Ripon

• Frederick North 8th Baron North

• Frederick Sleigh Roberts 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar

• Garnet Joseph Wolseley 1st Viscount Wolseley

• George Anson Baron Anson

• George Augustus Eliott 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar

• George Brydges Rodney 1st Baron Rodney

• George Buchanan

• George Byng Viscount Torrington

• George Canning

• George Digby 2d earl of Bristol

• George duke of Clarence

• George Frederick Samuel Robinson 1st marquess of Ripon

• George Gordon 4th earl of Huntly

• George Goring Baron Goring

• George Grenville

• George Hamilton-Gordon 4th earl of Aberdeen

• George I

• George III

• George IV

• George Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem

• George Joachim Goschen 1st Viscount Goschen

• George Lansbury

• George Macaulay Trevelyan

• George Monck 1st duke of Albemarle

• George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

• George Sackville Germain 1st Viscount Sackville

• George Savile 1st marquess of Halifax

• George V (Great Britain)

• George VI

• George Villiers 1st duke of Buckingham

• George Villiers 2d duke of Buckingham

• George Walker

• Gerald Fitzgerald 15th earl of Desmond

• Gilbert Burnet

• Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound 4th earl of Minto

• Godart van Ginkel 1st earl of Athlone

• Godwin

• Gordon Brown

• Granville George Leveson-Gower 2d Earl Granville

• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn

• Guy de Beauchamp earl of Warwick

• Guy Fawkes

• Harold

• Harold Harefoot

• Harold Macmillan 1st Earl of Stockton

• Harold Rupert Leofric George 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis Alexander

• Harold Wilson

• Hastings Lionel Ismay 1st Baron Ismay

• Heneage Finch 1st earl of Nottingham

• Hengist and Horsa

• Henrietta Maria

• Henry 2d duke of Buckingham Stafford

• Henry Addington Viscount Sidmouth

• Henry Beaufort

• Henry Bennet 1st earl of Arlington

• Henry Dundas 1st Viscount Melville

• Henry Fitzalan 12th earl of Arundel

• Henry Flood

• Henry Garnett

• Henry Grattan

• Henry Grey duke of Suffolk

• Henry Hastings 3d earl of Huntingdon

• Henry Howard earl of Northampton

• Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert 4th earl of Carnarvon

• Henry Hunt

• Henry I

• Henry II

• Henry III

• Henry Ireton

• Henry IV

• Henry John Temple 3d Viscount Palmerston

• Henry Maitland Wilson 1st Baron Wilson

• Henry of Huntingdon

• Henry Pelham

• Henry Percy 1st earl of Northumberland

• Henry Percy 4th earl of Northumberland

• Henry Peter Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

• Henry Richard Vassall Fox 3d Baron Holland

• Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke

• Henry V

• Henry VI

• Henry VII

• Henry VIII

• Henry Wriothesley 3d earl of Southampton

• Herbert Henry Asquith 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith

• Herbert Louis Samuel 1st Viscount Samuel

• Hereward the Wake

• Horatio Herbert Kitchener 1st Earl Kitchener

• Horatio Nelson Viscount Nelson

• house of Hanover

• house of Lancaster

• house of York

• Hubert de Burgh

• Hubert Walter

• Hugh Montague Trenchard 1st Viscount Trenchard

• Hugh ONeill 2d earl of Tyrone

• Hugh Roe ODonnell

• Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell

• Humphrey duke of Gloucester

• Hywel Dda

• Iain Duncan Smith

• Ian Richard Kyle Paisley

• Ine

• Isaac Butt

• Isabella

• Isabella Lucy (Bird) Bishop

• Jack Cade

• Jack Lynch

• Jack Sheppard

• James Andrew Broun Ramsay 1st marquess of Dalhousie

• James Bruce 8th earl of Elgin

• James Bryce 1st Viscount Bryce

• James Butler 12th earl and 1st duke of Ormonde

• James Butler 2d duke of Ormonde

• James Connolly

• James Craig 1st Viscount Craigavon

• James Crichton

• James Douglas 2d duke of Queensberry

• James Douglas 2d earl of Douglas and Mar

• James Douglas 4th duke of Hamilton

• James Douglas 4th earl of Morton

• James Douglas 9th earl of Douglas

• James Eric Drummond 16th earl of Perth

• James Francis Edward Stuart

• James Hamilton 1st earl of Arran

• James Hamilton 3d earl of Arran

• James Hepburn 4th earl of Bothwell

• James III

• James IV

• James Keir Hardie

• James Napper Tandy

• James Scott duke of Monmouth

• James Stanhope 1st Earl Stanhope

• James Stanley 7th earl of Derby

• James Stuart 1st earl of Murray

• James V

• Jane Seymour

• Jane Shore

• Joan of Kent

• John Arbuthnot Fisher 1st Baron Fisher

• John Benbow

• John Beresford

• John Bradshaw

• John Bright

• John Britton

• John Bruton

• John Burgoyne

• John Burns

• John Byng

• John Campbell 1st earl of Breadalbane

• John Campbell 2d duke of Argyll

• John Carteret 1st Earl Granville

• John Churchill 1st duke of Marlborough

• John Dalrymple 1st earl of Stair

• John Dalrymple 2d earl of Stair

• John de Stratford

• John Dennis Profumo

• John Denton Pinkstone French 1st earl of Ypres

• John Dillon

• John Dudley duke of Northumberland

• John Edward Redmond

• John Erskine 1st (or 6th) earl of Mar

• John Erskine 2d (or 7th) earl of Mar

• John Erskine 6th (or 11th) earl of Mar

• John Fitzgibbon 1st earl of Clare

• John Frederick Charles Fuller

• John George Lambton 1st earl of Durham

• John Graham of Claverhouse 1st Viscount Dundee

• John Hamilton 1st marquess of Hamilton

• John Hampden

• John Hervey Baron Hervey of Ickworth

• John Hookham Frere

• John Horne Tooke

• John Howard 1st duke of Norfolk

• John Jervis earl of St Vincent

• John Lambert

• John Leslie

• John Lilburne

• John Maitland duke of Lauderdale

• John Mitchel

• John Montagu 4th earl of Sandwich

• John Morley 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

• John Morton

• John of Gaunt

• John of Lancaster duke of Bedford

• John Philpot Curran

• John Pym

• John Rushworth Jellicoe 1st Earl Jellicoe

• John Russell 1st Earl Russell

• John Singleton Copley Baron Lyndhurst

• John Smith

• John Somers Baron Somers

• John Strype

• John Stuart 3d earl of Bute

• John Stuart 4th earl of Atholl

• John Talbot 1st earl of Shrewsbury

• John Thurloe

• John Tiptoft earl of Worcester

• John Wilkes

• Jonathan Wild

• Joseph Chamberlain

• Joseph Hume

• Junius

• Ken Livingstone

• Kenneth I

• Kenneth II

• Kim Philby

• Klaus Emil Fuchs

• Lady Godiva

• Lady Jane Grey

• Lambert Simnel

• Leonard James Callaghan Baron Callaghan of Cardiff

• Liam Cosgrave

• Lionel duke of Clarence

• Llywelyn ap Gruffydd

• Llywelyn ap Iorwerth

• Lord Edward Fitzgerald

• Lord George Gordon

• Lord George Murray

• Lord Henry Stuart Darnley

• Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill

• Lord William Cavendish Bentinck

• Lord William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck

• Lord William Russell

• Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

• Louisa countess of Albany

• Louise Renee de Keroualle duchess of Portsmouth

• Lucius Cary 2d Viscount Falkland

• Lucy Walter

• Madoc

• Malcolm III

• Malcolm IV

• Margaret Beaufort countess of Richmond and Derby

• Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher Baroness Thatcher

• Margaret Maid of Norway

• Margaret of Anjou

• Margaret Tudor

• Mary I

• Mary II

• Mary of Guise

• Mary of Modena

• Mary Queen of Scots

• Mary Tudor

• Matilda

• Michael Collins

• Michael Davitt

• Michael Foot

• Michael Howard

• Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine

• Nancy Witcher Astor Viscountess Astor

• Neil Gordon Kinnock

• Neville Chamberlain

• Offa

• Oliver Cromwell

• Oliver St John

• Orde Charles Wingate

• Oswy

• Owain Gwynedd

• Owen Glendower

• Owen Roe ONeill

• Owen Tudor

• Patrick Sarsfield earl of Lucan

• Penda

• Perkin Warbeck

• Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington

• Peter des Roches

• Philip Henry Stanhope 5th Earl Stanhope

• Philip Snowden 1st Viscount Snowden

• Philip Yorke 1st earl of Hardwicke

• Piers Gaveston

• Polydore Vergil

• Polydore Virgil

• Prince Philip Mountbatten duke of Edinburgh

• Ralph Neville 1st earl of Westmorland

• Ramsay MacDonald

• Ranulf Higden

• Raphael Holinshed

• Reginald Pole

• Rhys ap Gruffydd

• Richard Austen Butler

• Richard Boyle 1st earl of Cork

• Richard Burdon Haldane Viscount Haldane of Cloan

• Richard Cobden

• Richard Colley Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley

• Richard Cromwell

• Richard de Beauchamp earl of Warwick

• Richard de Clare 2d earl of Pembroke

• Richard duke of York

• Richard Howe Earl Howe

• Richard I

• Richard II

• Richard III

• Richard Neville earl of Warwick

• Richard Talbot duke and earl of Tyrconnel

• Richard Whittington

• Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers

• Rob Roy

• Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil 3d marquess of Salisbury

• Robert Banks Jenkinson 2d earl of Liverpool

• Robert Blake

• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

• Robert Carr earl of Somerset

• Robert Cecil 1st earl of Salisbury

• Robert Clive Baron Clive of Plassey

• Robert Cornelis Napier 1st Baron Napier of Magdala

• Robert Devereux 2d earl of Essex

• Robert Devereux 3d earl of Essex

• Robert Dudley earl of Leicester

• Robert earl of Gloucester

• Robert Emmet

• Robert Erskine Childers

• Robert Harley 1st earl of Oxford

• Robert III

• Robert Kett

• Robert Lowe Viscount Sherbrooke

• Robert of Gloucester

• Robert Spencer 2d earl of Sunderland

• Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell

• Robert Stewart 2d Viscount Castlereagh

• Robert Stuart 1st duke of Albany

• Robert Walpole 1st earl of Orford

• Roger Boyle 1st earl of Orrery

• Roger de Mortimer 1st earl of March

• Rory OConnor

• Rory ODonnell earl of Tyrconnel

• Roundell Palmer 1st earl of Selborne

• Roy Harris Jenkins Baron Jenkins of Hillhead

• Rufus Daniel Isaacs 1st marquess of Reading

• Saint Gildas

• Saint Margaret of Scotland

• Saint Oswald

• Saint Thomas a Becket

• Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood

• Shane ONeill

• Sidney Godolphin 1st earl of Godolphin

• Simon de Montfort earl of Leicester

• Sir Anthony Shirley

• Sir Arthur Coningham

• Sir Arthur Travers Harris

• Sir Austen Chamberlain

• Sir Bertram Home Ramsay

• Sir Charles Bagot

• Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

• Sir Charles James Napier

• Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke

• Sir Christopher Hatton

• Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck

• Sir Clowdisley Shovell

• Sir Edmund de Mortimer

• Sir Edward Codrington

• Sir Edward Coke

• Sir Edward Poynings

• Sir Edward Richard George Heath

• Sir Francis Walsingham

• Sir George Downing

• Sir George Otto Trevelyan

• Sir George Rooke

• Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere

• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

• Sir Henry Morgan

• Sir Henry Percy

• Sir Henry Vane

• Sir Hudson Lowe

• Sir Hyde Parker

• Sir James de Douglas lord of Douglas

• Sir James Eyre

• Sir James Mackintosh

• Sir James Melville

• Sir James Stephen

• Sir John Chandos

• Sir John Eliot

• Sir John Fastolf

• Sir John Hawkins

• Sir John Oldcastle

• Sir Nicholas Bacon

• Sir Nicholas Throckmorton

• Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley

• Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth

• Sir Philip Francis

• Sir Ralph Abercromby

• Sir Ralph Sadler

• Sir Redvers Henry Buller

• Sir Richard Fanshawe

• Sir Richard Grenville

• Sir Richard Hawkins

• Sir Robert Peel

• Sir Roger David Casement

• Sir Stafford Cripps

• Sir William Dugdale

• Sir William Fitzwilliam

• Sir William Francis Patrick Napier

• Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange

• Sir William Penn

• Sir William Randal Cremer

• Sir William Robert Robertson

• Sir William Sidney Smith

• Sir William Temple

• Sir William Wallace

• Sir William Waller

• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

• Siward

• Sophia Dorothea

• Spencer Compton Cavendish 8th duke of Devonshire

• Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington

• Spencer Perceval

• Stanley Baldwin

• Stephen

• Stephen Gardiner

• Stratford Canning Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe

• Stuart

• Terence Marne ONeill Baron ONeill of the Maine

• Theobald Wolfe Tone

• Thomas Audley Baron Audley of Walden

• Thomas Bruce 7th earl of Elgin

• Thomas Butler 10th earl of Ormonde

• Thomas Butler earl of Ossory

• Thomas Clifford 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

• Thomas Cochrane 10th earl of Dundonald

• Thomas Cranmer

• Thomas Darcy Baron Darcy

• Thomas de Beauchamp earl of Warwick

• Thomas earl of Essex Cromwell

• Thomas Erskine 1st Baron Erskine

• Thomas Fairfax 3d Baron Fairfax of Cameron

• Thomas Fitzgerald 10th earl of Kildare

• Thomas Howard 1st earl of Suffolk

• Thomas Howard 2d duke of Norfolk

• Thomas Howard 3d duke of Norfolk

• Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk

• Thomas Mowbray 1st duke of Norfolk

• Thomas of Woodstock duke of Gloucester

• Thomas Osborne earl of Danby

• Thomas Pelham-Holles duke of Newcastle

• Thomas Percy 7th earl of Northumberland

• Thomas Percy earl of Worcester

• Thomas Power OConnor

• Thomas Pride

• Thomas Radcliffe 3d earl of Sussex

• Thomas Randolph 1st earl of Murray

• Thomas Seymour Baron Seymour of Sudeley

• Thomas Stanley 1st earl of Derby

• Thomas Wentworth 1st earl of Strafford

• Thomas Wolsey

• Thomas Wriothesley 4th earl of Southampton

• Timothy Michael Healy

• Titus Oates

• Tony Blair

• Tostig

• Tudor

• Victoria (Great Britain)

• Vortigern

• Wallis Warfield duchess of Windsor

• Wat Tyler

• William Augustus duke of Cumberland

• William Bentinck 1st earl of Portland

• William Bligh

• William Borough

• William Camden

• William Carr Beresford Viscount Beresford

• William Carstares

• William Cavendish duke of Newcastle

• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley

• William Cobbett

• William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper

• William Douglas 1st earl of Douglas and Mar

• William Douglas 6th earl of Douglas

• William Edmund Ironside 1st Baron Ironside

• William Edward Forster

• William Elphinstone

• William Ewart Gladstone

• William Fiennes 1st Viscount Saye and Sele

• William Goffe

• William Hamilton 2d duke of Hamilton

• William Henry Cavendish Bentinck 3d duke of Portland

• William Herbert 3d earl of Pembroke

• William Huskisson

• William I (England)

• William II (England)

• William III (England)

• William IV

• William Jefferson Hague

• William Joseph Slim 1st Viscount Slim

• William Joyce

• William Kidd

• William Lamb 2d Viscount Melbourne

• William Maitland

• William Marshal 1st earl of Pembroke

• William Maxwell Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook

• William OBrien

• William of Longchamp

• William of Wykeham

• William Petty Fitzmaurice 2d earl of Shelburne

• William Pitt

• William Pitt 1st earl of Chatham

• William Prynne

• William Smith OBrien

• William the Lion

• William Thomas Cosgrave

• William Waynflete

• William Wentworth Fitzwilliam 2d Earl Fitzwilliam

• William Wilberforce

• William Windham

• William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville

• Windsor (royal family)