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• Booth, William
  Co-founder of The Salvation Army
• Boucher, Jean
  Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, then Paris, he made a name for himself with his monument to Ernest Renan in 1903. After serving as a volunteer from 1914 to 1918, he became a professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1919 and was elected to the Académie des Beaux Arts in 1936. He created the sculptures for the Verdun Victory and Soldiers' Monument. His "Poilu" statue for the town of Vitré (1921) established him as a major statuary of the 1920s.
• Boulton, Richard Lockwood
  British sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Boulton founded the firm Messrs R. L. Boulton & Sons, which carried out a number of sculptural works both locally in Cheltenham and overseas. Boulton works include the Boer War Memorial in Cheltenham, the Cheltenham College Chapel reredos (also a memorial to the Boer War, accompanied by several carved colonial figures), and sculptures for Royal Alfred Sailors' Home (now Maharashtra Police Headquarters) in Mumbai.
• Bourke, Richard, 6th Earl of Mayo
  Chief Secretary for Ireland (1852, 1858–9, 1866–8) and 4th Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1869-1872)
• Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
  Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth (1936-1952) and Empress consort of India (1936-1947)
• Braverman, Suella
  Attorney General for England and Wales (February 2020-March 2021; September 2021-September 2022)
• Brétignère, Amédée
  French colonial explorer, geologist and planter in Côte d'Ivoire in the nineteenth century.
• Bridgeman, Robert
  British sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Bright, John
  British Radical and Liberal statesman in the nineteenth century.
• Brilliant, Fredda
  Polish sculptor and actress in the twentieth century.
• Britannia
  National personification of Britain, who appears as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield
• Brock, Thomas
  English sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Victoria in the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, the statue of Henry Bartle Frere in London, and the statue of John Nicholson, which was first installed in Dehli but was later repatriated and re-erected in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
• Brockway, Fenner
  British socialist politician, humanist and campaigner for a wide number of causes, including pacifism, nuclear disarmament, anti-imperialism, and racial justice. After the Second World War, Brockway established the Congress of Peoples Against Imperialism and was a member of the Movement for Colonial Freedom in the United Kingdom. Brockway was a leading figure in protesting the British government's conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya (1952-1960).
• Brodrick, St John, 1st Earl of Midleton
  British Secretary of State for War (1900-1903) and Secretary of State for India (1903-1905).
• Brothers, Wills
  English sculptors in the nineteenth century
• Brown, William Kellock
  Scottish sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Bruce-Joy, Albert
  Irish sculptor working in England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Bruce, Henry Austin
  British politician in the nineteenth century. Bruce was a leading figure in the National African Company and its successor the Royal Niger Company from 1882 to 1895, as well as the founder of what is now Cardiff University.
• Buller, Audrey
  Wife of Redvers Buller.
• Buller, Redvers
  British army officer who fought in several colonial conflicts across the globe in the second half of the nineteenth-century, including China, Canada, West Africa, East Africa, and South Africa.
• Burgess, Marti
• Burgoyne, John Fox
  British Army officer who fought in a number of nineteenth century conflicts, including the Alexandria expedition in 1807 and Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
• Burke, Edmund
  Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher in the eighteenth century.
• Burnard, Neville Northey
  British sculptor in the nineteenth century. Burnard's patron, the Cornish MP Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet had an indirect connection to British slavery through his father Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet, who was a mortgage holder of the Belmont estate in St Vincent.
• Burton, Edson
  Writer, historian, programme-curator and performer based in Bristol.
• Butler, Vincent
  Scottish sculptor in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Campbell, Colin, 1st Baron Clyde
  British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of India from 1857 to 1861. Campbell fought in several colonial conflicts in the Caribbean and Asia during the nineteenth century, and was involved in the suppression of the Demerara slave rebellion in 1823 and the Indian rebellion in 1857.
• Campbell, Thomas
  Scottish sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
• Canning, George
  British Prime Minister, statesman, and pro-slavery politician in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Canning was an important opponent of the abolition of slavery in the 1820s, and his views on the subject have been discussed at length by the historian Michael Taylor. As Member of Parliament for Liverpool between 1812 and 1823, one of his major political patrons had been the absentee Guyanese slave-owner and politician John Gladstone (1764-1851). Canning also enjoyed a close personal and political friendship with Charles Rose Ellis, Lord Seaford (1771-1845), who was a leading figure in the West India interest and an absentee Jamaican slave-owner. As Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, Canning was responsible for thwarting Thomas Fowell Buxton's early efforts to introduce a plan for abolition in May 1823. His opposition to emancipation was often couched explicitly in ideas of racial inferiority: in a speech to the Commons on amelioration in March 1824, for instance, he argued 'In dealing with the n****, Sir, we must remember that we are dealing with a being possessing the form and strength of a man, but the intellect only of a child'.
• Cardot, Jean
  Second grand prix de Rome en 1956, enseignant aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon puis de Paris, élu à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts en 1983. Il réalise plusieurs statues de personnalités destinées à
• Carew, John Edward
  Irish sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
• Carlyle, Thomas
  Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795-1881). Carlyle's essay 'Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question', first published in 1849 and republished in 1853 with a new title, expounded a defence of slavery on the grounds of racial inferiority. He later led the Eyre Defence and Aid Fund to defend Governor John Eyre's violent repression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica in 1865. Carlyle's thought had a wide-ranging influence both during and after his life. Other nineteenth-century proslavery intellectuals such as George Fitzhugh and John Mitchel, the latter of whom Carlyle met in the mid-1840s, claimed inspiration from his work.
• Carpentière, Andries
  English sculptor of French or Flemish descent working in Britain at the beginning of eighteenth century.
• Carteret, George
  Royalist statesman in Jersey and one of the original lords proprietor of the British colony of Carolina. Carteret was one of the six founding members of the Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa, an early predecessor of the Royal African Company (RAC), and later became a consultant and investor in the RAC.
• Cartwright, John
  English naval officer and political reformer in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
• Cartwright, Thomas
  English stonemason and sculptor
• Cass, John
  English slave-trader, politician and philanthropist in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Cass was a member of the Court of Assistants of the Royal African Company from 1705 and made substantial investments in the Company. Cass also served as a Member of Parliament from 1710 to 1715.
• Cassidy, John
  Irish sculptor who worked in Manchester in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Cassidy is probably most well known for sculpting the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston for Bristol in 1895, but he also produced other colonial works, including the two statues of John and Enriqueta Rylands in Manchester's John Rylands Library.
• Castle, Barbara
  British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Castle was a supporter of both the Movement for Colonial Freedom and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the United Kingdom, and was a leading figure in protesting the British government's conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya (1952-1960). Castle visited Kenya in 1954 during the rebellion and made a famous speech in Parliament exposing governmental deception over the Hola Massacre in 1959.
• Cavendish, Charles
  British politician and soldier who was Inspector General of Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War.
• Cavendish, Frederick
  British politician in the nineteenth century, whose appointment as the Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1882 was cut short by his murder by Irish republicans, known as the Phoenix Park Murders.
• Cavendish, Spencer, 8th Duke of Devonshire
  British politician in the nineteenth century. Cavendish served in a number of government positions, including Secretary of State for War (1866; 1882-1885), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1871-1874), and Secretary of State for India (1880-1882).
• Chantrey, Francis Legatt
  English sculptor active in the early nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Edward Hyde East in Kolkata and the equestrian statue of Thomas Munro in Chennai. Chantrey also executed a number of monuments to figures with connections to transatlantic slavery, including a monument to Isaac Hawkins Browne in Badger, Shropshire, a monument to John 'Mad Jack' Fuller in Brightling, Sussex, and a bust of Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough, which is now in the collections of the National Gallery.
• Charles II
  King of Scotland (1649-1651) and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-1685). Charles granted a royal charter to the slave-trading Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa and made investments in the company. He was later founder and patron of the Royal African Company alongside his brother the Duke of York.
• Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland (1761-1818)
• Chatham, Herbert
  British sculptor active in the early twentieth century.
• Chavalliaud, Léon-Joseph
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Cheere, Henry
  English sculptor in the eighteenth century.
• Chongren, Zhang
  Chinese sculptor in the twentieth century and friend of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
• Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa, née Miller
  British detective fiction writer, creator of the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She was married twice, the second time to the archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she accompanied on several field trips in Iraq, Syria, and other places in the Middle East. These trips were enabled by the fact of British imperialism in the region. They were also associated with the cultural predation of twentieth-century archaeology. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was a devoted admirer of Gertrude Bell, whose enormous political influence on mandatory Iraq remains a contentious legacy. As the first director of the Iraq Museum, Bell designed Iraq's first antiquities law, which allowed archaeological excavators to remove 50% of their finds; these were priceless antiquities currently housed in museums in the West. Many of Christie's widely loved and enjoyed detective novels are set in Middle Eastern locales. They are replete with Orientalist stereotypes.