Potential Characters for the Adventurers' Club *- Dickens connection
MEN
NAME |
PROFESSION |
DATES |
NATIONALITY |
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Adams, John Couch |
astronomer |
1819-92 |
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Agassiz, Louis |
naturalist |
1807-73 |
Swiss-American |
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Alma Tadema, Sir Lawrence |
painter |
1836-1912 |
Dutch |
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Arnold, Matthew |
poet &
critic |
1822-88 |
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Babbage, Charles >Prime< |
mathematician |
1792-1871 |
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Baker, Sir Samuel White >Prime< |
explorer |
1821-93 |
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Balzac, Honoré de |
writer |
1799-1850 |
French |
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Baudelaire, Charles |
novelist |
1821-67 |
French |
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Boucicault, Dion |
playwright |
1820-90 |
Irish |
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Brown, Ford Madox |
painter,
pre-Raphaelite |
1821-93 |
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Browne, Hablot Knight [Phiz]* >Prime< |
illustrator for Dickens' Books |
1815-82 |
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Browning, Robert |
poet |
1812-89 |
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Brunel, Isambard Kingdom |
engineer |
1806-59 |
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward |
novelist |
1803-73 |
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Burne-Jones, Sir Edward |
painter,
pre-Raphaelite |
1833-98 |
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Burton, Sir Richard Francis >Prime< |
orientalist,
writer, explorer |
1821-90 |
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Caldecott, Randolph |
illustrator |
1846-86 |
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Carlyle, Thomas |
historian |
1795-1881 |
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Cayley, Sir George |
scientist
- flight |
1773-1857 |
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Chopin, Frédéric |
composer |
1810-49 |
Polish |
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Cody, Buffalo Bill (Filled) |
producer -
Wild West Show |
1846-1917 |
American |
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Collins, Wilkie* >Prime< |
novelist |
1824-89 |
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Cook, Thomas |
tourist
agent |
1808-92 |
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Darwin, Charles >Prime< |
naturalist |
1809-82 |
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Delacroix, Eugène |
painter |
1798-1863 |
French |
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Disraeli, Benjamin >Prime< |
politician |
1804-81 |
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge |
mathematician,
photographer, writer |
1832-98 |
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Doré, Gustave |
illustrator |
1832-83 |
French |
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d'Orsay, Guillaume Gabriel, Count |
dandy |
1801-52 |
French |
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Du Maurier, George |
illustrator |
1834-96 |
French |
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Dumas, Alexandre, fils |
novelist |
1824-95 |
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Dumas, Alexandre, père |
novelist |
1802-70 |
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Egg, Augustus* >Prime< |
painter |
1816-63 |
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Faraday, Michael |
scientist |
1791-1867 |
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Frith, William Powell |
painter |
1819-1909 |
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Gilbert, William Schwenk |
librettist |
1836-1911 |
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Grant, Augustus |
explorer |
1827-92 |
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Hardy, Thomas |
novelist |
1840-1928 |
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Hogarth, George* >Prime< |
newpaper editor (Dickens' father-in-law) |
1783-1870 |
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Hugo, Victor |
novelist |
1802-85 |
French |
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Hunt, William Holman |
painter,
pre-Raphaelite |
1827-1910 |
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Huxley, Thomas Henry |
scientist |
1825-95 |
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Kingsley, Charles |
novelist |
1819-75 |
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Landseer, Sir Edwin |
painter |
1802-73 |
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LeFanu, J. Sheridan |
writer |
1814-73 |
Irish |
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Leighton, Sir Frederick, Baron Leighton of Stretton |
painter;
Pres of the Royal Academy |
1830-96 |
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Lister, Dr. Joseph |
physician |
1827-1912 |
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Liszt, Franz |
composer |
1811-86 |
Hungarian |
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Livingstone, Dr. David |
missionary |
1813-73 |
Scot |
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Marryat, Capt. Frederick |
novelist, sailor |
1792-1848 |
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Mill, John Stuart |
philosopher,
reformer |
1806-73 |
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Millais, Sir John Everett (Filled) |
painter,
pre-Raphaelite |
1829-96 |
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Morris, William >Prime< |
painter,
designer |
1834-96 |
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Musset, Alfred de |
playwright |
1810-57 |
French |
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Muybridge, Eadweard |
photographer |
1830-1904 |
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Pugin, Augustus |
painter |
1830-1904 |
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Reuters, Paul Julius |
journalist |
1816-99 |
German - English |
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel |
painter,
pre-Raphaelite, poet |
1822-82 |
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Ruskin, John |
poet &
critic |
1819-1900 |
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Speke, John Hanning >Prime< |
painter |
1812-52 |
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Sullivan, Sir Arthur |
composer |
1842-1900 |
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Talbot, William Henry Fox |
inventor,
photographer |
1800-77 |
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord |
poet
(Laureate) |
1809-1902 |
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Thackeray, William Makepeace |
novelist |
1811-63 |
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Trollope, Anthony |
novelist |
1815-82 |
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Wallace, Alfred Russel |
scientist |
1823-1913 |
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Wordsworth, William |
poet
(Laureate) |
1770-1850 |
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WOMEN
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Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett |
physician |
1836-1917 |
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Baker, Mrs. Samuel (Florence von Sass) |
explorer |
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Beeton, Isabella |
writer |
1836-65 |
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