ORGANIZATION

Location:
London, England

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Matthew Arnold	Poet	24-Dec-1822	15-Apr-1888	Culture and Anarchy
Sir Joseph Banks	Botanist	13-Feb-1743	19-Jun-1820	Accompanied James Cook
James Boswell	Author	29-Oct-1740	19-May-1795	The Life of Samuel Johnson
Edmund Burke	Philosopher	1-Jan-1729	9-Jul-1797	Reflections on the Revolution in France
Charles Burney	Musicologist	7-Apr-1726	12-Apr-1814	History of Music
Charles James Fox	Politician	24-Jan-1749	13-Sep-1806	U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary
David Garrick	Actor	19-Feb-1717	20-Jan-1779	Manager of Drury Lane Theatre
Edward Gibbon	Historian	8-May-1737	16-Jan-1794	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
William Ewart Gladstone	Head of State	29-Dec-1809	19-May-1898	Four times UK Prime Minister
Oliver Goldsmith	Author	10-Nov-1730	4-Apr-1774	The Vicar of Wakefield
Sir John Hawkins	Author	30-Mar-1719	21-May-1789	History of Music
Joseph Dalton Hooker	Botanist	30-Jun-1817	10-Dec-1911	Genera Plantarum
Samuel Johnson	Lexicographer	18-Sep-1709	13-Dec-1784	A Dictionary of the English Language
Lord Kelvin	Physicist	26-Jun-1824	17-Dec-1907	Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Rudyard Kipling	Author	30-Dec-1865	18-Jan-1936	The Jungle Book
Edmond Malone	Scholar	4-Oct-1741	25-Apr-1812	Irish Shakespearian scholar
Thomas Percy	Author	13-Apr-1729	30-Sep-1811	Percy Reliques
Joshua Reynolds	Painter	16-Jul-1723	23-Feb-1792	English portraitist
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Playwright	30-Oct-1751	7-Jul-1816	The School for Scandal
Adam Smith	Economist	5-Jun-1723	17-Jul-1790	The Wealth of Nations
Archibald Campbell Tait	Religion	21-Dec-1811	3-Dec-1882	Archbishop of Canterbury, 1868-82
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poet	6-Aug-1809	6-Oct-1892	The Charge of the Light Brigade
Thomas Warton	Poet	9-Jan-1728	21-May-1790	English Poet Laureate, 1785-90

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