Curated category
Younger sons of barons
- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of SalisburyRobert Cecil stood barely five feet tall with a spine curved by scoliosis. Queen Elizabeth I called him my pygmy while King James I nicknamed him my little…
- Thomas NorthThomas North entered the world between 9 and 10 o'clock at night on Friday, the 28th of May 1535. He arrived in the parish of St Alban, Wood Street, within…