Potential Characters for the Adventurers' Club *- Dickens connection             

                                                                                

MEN

NAME

PROFESSION

DATES

NATIONALITY

   Adams, John Couch

astronomer

1819-92

 

   Agassiz, Louis

naturalist

1807-73

Swiss-American

   Alma Tadema, Sir Lawrence

painter

1836-1912

Dutch

   Arnold, Matthew

poet & critic

1822-88

 

   Babbage, Charles >Prime<

mathematician

1792-1871

 

   Baker, Sir Samuel White >Prime<

explorer

1821-93

 

   Balzac, Honoré de

writer

1799-1850

French

   Baudelaire, Charles

novelist

1821-67

French

   Boucicault, Dion

playwright

1820-90

Irish

   Brown, Ford Madox

painter, pre-Raphaelite

1821-93

 

   Browne, Hablot Knight [Phiz]* >Prime<

illustrator for Dickens' Books

1815-82

 

   Browning, Robert

poet

1812-89

 

   Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

engineer

1806-59

 

   Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

novelist

1803-73

 

   Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

painter, pre-Raphaelite

1833-98

 

   Burton, Sir Richard Francis >Prime<

orientalist, writer, explorer

1821-90

 

   Caldecott, Randolph

illustrator

1846-86

 

   Carlyle, Thomas

historian

1795-1881

 

   Cayley, Sir George

scientist - flight

1773-1857

 

   Chopin, Frédéric

composer

1810-49

Polish

   Cody, Buffalo Bill (Filled)

producer - Wild West Show

1846-1917

American

   Collins, Wilkie* >Prime<

novelist

1824-89

 

   Cook, Thomas

tourist agent

1808-92

 

   Darwin, Charles >Prime<

naturalist

1809-82

 

   Delacroix, Eugène

painter

1798-1863

French

   Disraeli, Benjamin >Prime<

politician

1804-81

 

   Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge

mathematician, photographer, writer

1832-98

 

   Doré, Gustave

illustrator

1832-83

French

   d'Orsay, Guillaume Gabriel, Count

dandy

1801-52

French

   Du Maurier, George

illustrator

1834-96

French

   Dumas, Alexandre, fils

novelist

1824-95

 

   Dumas, Alexandre, père

novelist

1802-70

 

   Egg, Augustus* >Prime<

painter

1816-63

 

   Faraday, Michael

scientist

1791-1867

 

   Frith, William Powell

painter

1819-1909

 

   Gilbert, William Schwenk

librettist

1836-1911

 

   Grant, Augustus

explorer

1827-92

 

   Hardy, Thomas

novelist

1840-1928

 

   Hogarth, George* >Prime<

newpaper editor (Dickens' father-in-law)

1783-1870

 

   Hugo, Victor

novelist

1802-85

French

   Hunt, William Holman

painter, pre-Raphaelite

1827-1910

   Huxley, Thomas Henry

scientist

1825-95

 

   Kingsley, Charles

novelist

1819-75

   Landseer, Sir Edwin

painter

1802-73

 

   LeFanu, J. Sheridan

writer

1814-73

Irish

   Leighton, Sir Frederick, Baron Leighton of Stretton

painter; Pres of the Royal Academy

1830-96

 

   Lister, Dr. Joseph

physician

1827-1912

 

   Liszt, Franz

composer

1811-86

Hungarian

   Livingstone, Dr. David

missionary

1813-73

Scot

   Marryat, Capt. Frederick

novelist, sailor

1792-1848

 

   Mill, John Stuart

philosopher, reformer

1806-73

 

   Millais, Sir John Everett (Filled)

painter, pre-Raphaelite

1829-96

 

   Morris, William >Prime<

painter, designer

1834-96

 

   Musset, Alfred de

playwright

1810-57

French

   Muybridge, Eadweard

photographer

1830-1904

 

   Pugin, Augustus

painter

1830-1904

 

   Reuters, Paul Julius

journalist

1816-99

German - English

   Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

painter, pre-Raphaelite, poet

1822-82

 

   Ruskin, John

poet & critic

1819-1900

 

   Speke, John Hanning >Prime<

painter

1812-52

 

   Sullivan, Sir Arthur

composer

1842-1900

 

   Talbot, William Henry Fox

inventor, photographer

1800-77

 

   Tennyson, Alfred Lord

poet (Laureate)

1809-1902

 

   Thackeray, William Makepeace

novelist

1811-63

 

   Trollope, Anthony

novelist

1815-82

 

   Wallace, Alfred Russel

scientist

1823-1913

 

   Wordsworth, William

poet (Laureate)

1770-1850

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

WOMEN                                                                                                                                                                                                

   Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

physician

1836-1917

 

   Baker, Mrs. Samuel (Florence von Sass)

explorer

 

 

   Beeton, Isabella

writer

1836-65