Curated category
English Anglicans
- Anne BoleynAnne Boleyn's exact birth year remains a subject of historical argument, with scholars proposing either 1501 or 1507 as the correct date.
- Charles DickensOn the 12th of May 1824, twelve-year-old Charles Dickens boarded a small boat to visit his father inside the Marshalsea debtors' prison in Southwark.
- J. J. ThomsonJoseph John Thomson entered the world on the 18th of December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. His mother Emma Swindells came from a local textile family…
- Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the 22nd of November 1913. His father Robert Victor Britten worked as a…
- Charles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of February 1809 at his family's home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the fifth of six children of…
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII was born on the 28th of June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent. He entered the world as the third child and second son of King…
- David CameronDavid William Donald Cameron was born on the 9th of October 1966 at the London Clinic in Marylebone, London. He grew up at Peasemore in Berkshire with two…
- Jane AustenJane Austen arrived in the world on the 16th of December 1775 within the quiet valley of Steventon, Hampshire. Her father George Austen wrote to his wife…
- Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson entered the world on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was the oldest boy and third of…
- William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth entered the world on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann…
- Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift entered the world on the 30th of November 1667 in Dublin. His father was a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire who had fled to Ireland after his…
- Margaret ThatcherMargaret Hilda Roberts was born on the 13th of October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Her father Alfred Roberts owned a tobacconist and grocery shop that…
- Catherine ParrCatherine Parr entered the world in 1512, likely during late July or August. Her father Sir Thomas Parr held the manor of Kendal in Westmorland, now part of…
- Elizabeth IElizabeth was born on the 7th of September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. Her mother Anne Boleyn had been Henry VIII's second wife.
- Alfred, Lord TennysonAlfred Tennyson was born on the 6th of August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father George Clayton Tennyson served as rector there from 1807 until his…
- Catherine HowardCatherine Howard entered the world in Lambeth around 1523, born into a family that held high rank but little money. Her father was Lord Edmund Howard, the…
- Samuel JohnsonOn the 18th of September 1709, a baby named Samuel Johnson did not cry when he was born in Lichfield. His mother Sarah had been forty years old during the…
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was born on the 21st of October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, a small town in Devon. His father served as the vicar of the local church and…
- John LockeOn the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, a boy named John Locke was born in the village of Wrington, Somerset.
- Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin D'Israeli was born on the 21st of December 1804 at 6 King's Road, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury. His family carried a Sephardic Jewish mercantile…
- Lady Jane GreyJane Grey sat in the presence of her father or mother, speaking, keeping silence, sitting, standing, going, eating, drinking, merrily or sadly.
- Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer entered the world on the 2nd of July 1489 at Aslockton in Nottinghamshire, England. He was a younger son of Thomas Cranmer and his wife Agnes…
- Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, the 25th of December 1642 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. His father had died three months before the birth.
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl WavellArchibald Percival Wavell was born on the 5th of May 1883 to Archibald Graham Wavell and Lillie Wavell. His father later became a major-general in the…
- Richard ArkwrightRichard Arkwright opened a small shop on Churchgate in Bolton during the early 1760s. He worked as a barber and wig-maker for local customers.
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
- Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Roderick Ellis Davidson was born in Bebington, Cheshire, England, on the 1st of October 1914. Her father Henry Roderick worked as a stationer while her…
- Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552. His parentage remains obscure to modern historians, though evidence suggests he was…
- Robert HookeRobert Hooke was born on the 18th of July 1635 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. His father John Hooke served as a curate at All Saints' Church and his mother…
- Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from…
- Robert BridgesRobert Bridges stood at the bedside of a patient in 1876. He wore the white coat of a full physician at the Great Northern Central Hospital.
- H. F. M. PrescottHilda Frances Margaret Prescott entered the world on the 22nd of February 1896 in Cheshire. Her father was Rev James Mulleneux Prescott and her mother was…
- Donald SwannDonald Ibrahim Swann entered the world on the 30th of September 1923 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. His father Herbert Alfredovich Swann was a Russian doctor…
- Edmund CartwrightEdmund Cartwright entered the world on the 24th of April 1743 at Marnham in Nottinghamshire. He was the fourth son born to William Cartwright and his wife…
- Thomas LucyThomas Lucy arrived in the world on the 24th of April 1532. He was the eldest son and heir of William Lucy who died in 1551.