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Davis, Edward British sculptor in the nineteenth century.
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Day Keyworth junior, William English sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Dhondy, Farrukh
Indian-British writer and activist based in London. -
Dick, William Reid Scottish sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of David Livingstone in Zimbabwe and the statues of Lord Irwin and the Earl of Willingdon in Coronation Park, Delhi.
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Dinham, John
British businessman and philanthropist in Exeter. Dinham made his wealth as a tea-merchant based in London. -
Disraeli, Benjamin
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874-1880) -
Dobson, Benjamin Alfred English textile machinery manufacturer and mayor of Bolton.
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Dorries, Nadine
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (September 2021-September 2022) -
Doubleday, John British sculptor
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Dowden, Oliver
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (February 2020-September 2021) and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2023-). -
Doyle, Arthur Conan
British writer and physician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Doyle is most well known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, but he was also involved in, and wrote about, the British Empire and imperial politics. Doyle served as a volunteer physician in Bloemfontein between March and June 1900 during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), and wrote about the war in The Great Boer War (1900) and The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct (1902). In 1909, he wrote The Crime of the Congo in support of E.D. Morel and Roger Casement's campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State. Doyle's fictional works also touch on imperial themes. The famous character of Dr. Watson, for instance, was written as a veteran of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), while the science fiction novel The Lost World (1912) depicts an imaginary expedition to South America. -
Drake, Francis
English sailor, privateer and slave-trader in the sixteenth century. -
Dresser, Madge British historian with research interests in the history of Atlantic Slavery, of ethnic minorities in Britain, slavery and memory, gender history and pubic history. She has worked for the University of West England and the University of Bristol, and as consultant for museums and public bodies such as the National Archives.
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Drury, Alfred English sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Duckett the Elder, Thomas English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
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Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville
Eighteenth-century Scottish politician who played key roles in shaping domestic and international policy. Dundas was instrumental in slowing down the full abolition of slavery through amendments introduced to Parliamentary legislation. He was the President of the Board of Control, or the Parliamentary Committee that supervised the affairs of the British East India Company, especially its political and military activities in India. -
Dundas, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville
British politician in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dundas was President of the Board of Control (1807-1809; 1809-1812), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1809), and First Lord of the Admiralty (1812-1827; 1828-1830). -
Dunn, Albert Edward
British politician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dunn was Mayor of Exeter (1900-1901) and Member of Parliament for Camborne (1906-1910). As Chairman of the Buller Memorial Committee, Dunn spearheaded the campaign to build a statue of Redvers Buller in Exeter from 1901 to 1905. -
Durham, Joseph
English sculptor in the nineteenth century. -
Earle, Thomas English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
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Earle, William
British soldier (1833-1885) who fought in the Crimean War and East Africa. Earle came from a Liverpool family with deep ties to slave-ownership and slave-trading. Earle married Mary Codrington, who also came from a family closely involved in British slavery. -
Edward VII
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India from 1901 to 1910 -
Edwardes, Herbert Benjamin
British colonial administrator and soldier in India in the nineteenth century. -
Edwards, Henry
British Liberal politician and linseed merchant in the nineteenth century. His life showcases the inevitable imperial connections of the British elite of the Victorian period. He participated in the Crimean war; was present in the coronation of Russian Czars; was among the first to sail through the Suez canal, whose financing and later debt-servicing landed Egypt into a semi-colonial state; he also rode the newly Northern Pacific Railway, which served as a powerful tool of settler expansionism and disrupted Native American Communities. In Parliament, however, Edwards's interventions were principally around local concerns. -
Elder, John
Scottish shipbuilder in the nineteenth century. In 1852, John Elder joined the firm of Randolph, Elliott, & Co., which was initially involved in building ship engines before expanding to constructing actual ships from the 1860s. Elder became the sole partner in the company from 1868 and renamed the firm John Elder & Co the following year. His wife Isabella Elder (1828-1905) then briefly took over management of the company upon John's death in 1869. The Elders' shipbuilding firm was actively involved in supporting Britain's naval empire and imperial commerce throughout the nineteenth century. Some of the company's clients included the African Mail Company and the African Steamship Company, the latter of which was absorbed into Elder, Dempster and Co. in 1891. -
Eliott, George Augustus
British army officer in the eighteenth century. Eliott served as Governor of Londonderry (1774-1775) and Governor of Gibraltar (1777-1790). -
Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 to 2022. -
Epstein, Jacob
American-born British sculptor active in the twentieth century -
Eve, Harry Trelawney
Member of Parliament for Ashburton (1904-1907) and the son of a Jamaican merchant. -
Fagon, Alfred
Black British poet, playwright and actor in the twentieth century. -
Farrell, Terrence Irish sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
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Fawcett, Millicent
English suffragist and writer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the Second Boer War, Fawcett headed the Fawcett Commission, alongside Anne Knox, Jane Waterston, Ella Scarlet, Katherine Brereton and Lucy Deane, which was sent by the government on a four-month tour in the summer of 1901 to investigate the conditions of British concentration camps in South Africa, in response to a prior independent investigation carried out by Emily Hobhouse which had been highly critical of the camps. -
Fehr, Henry Charles British sculptor active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Flaxman, John
British sculptor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Flaxman produced several colonial statues in his lifetime, including a statue of Lt. Gen. Sir John Moore in Glasgow and two statues of Warren Hastings for Whitehall and India. Some of his most notable works, however, were funerary monuments, many of which were produced for individuals involved in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. Examples include the monument to Sir Simon Clarke in Hanover Parish Church, Jamaica, the monument to William Miles in Ledbury Church, Herefordshire, and two monuments to John Brathwaite in St Martin's Church, Epsom and St Michael’s Parish Church, Barbados. -
Foley, John Henry
Irish sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the equestrian statue of James Outram in Kolkata, the statue of Colin Campbell in Glasgow, and the equestrian statue of Henry Hardinge, which was originally installed in Kolkata but was later repatriated to the UK. -
Ford, Edward Onslow
British sculptor in the late nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Chamarajendra Wadiyar X in Mysore, India, the statue of Lakshmeshwar Singh in Kolkata, India, and two statues of Charles Gordon, one of which was sent to Khartoum, Sudan but later repatriated to the UK. -
Forster, William Edward
Chief Secretary for Ireland (1880-1882). -
Fortescue, Hugh, 4th Earl Fortescue
British politician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fortescue was Member of Parliament for Tiverton (1881-1885) and Tavistock (1885-1892), as well as Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1904–1928). -
Forwood, Arthur Bower
English merchant, shipowner, and politician. Forwood was Member of Parliament for Ormskirk (1885-1898) and Mayor of the Borough of Liverpool (1877-1878). Working with his brother William Bower Forwood (1840-1928), Forwood made much of his wealth from blockade running during the American Civil War (1861-1865) in support of the Confederate States of America , which was fighting to preserve the institution of slavery in the United States. -
Fox, Charles James
British Whig politician and statesman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Fox was Foreign Secretary in 1782, 1783 and 1806. His nephew was the politician and absentee Jamaican slave-owner Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840). -
Frampton, George
British sculptor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Queen Victoria in Kolkata, the statue of Antony MacDonnell in Lucknow, and the memorial to Alfred Lewis Jones in Liverpool. -
Franklin, John
British naval officer, explorer and colonial administrator. Franklin was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) from 1839 to 1843. Franklin's lost expedition to the Canadian Arctic in 1845 resulted in considerable efforts to try to locate the remains of their two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crews. In 1854, the Scottish explorer John Rae (1813-1893) collected testimony in from the Inuit people about the fate of the expedition, which included suggestions that some crew members had been forced to resort to cannibalism to survive. The testimony provided by the Inuits was met with considerable racist outcry from sections of Victorian society, including Charles Dickens (1812-1870), which effectively tarnished Rae's reputation. -
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. -
Frere, Henry Bartle
British colonial administrator. Frere served as Commissioner of Sind (1851-1859), Governor of Bombay (1862-1867), and High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877-1880). -
Gahagan, Sebastian Irish sculptor in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His most notable colonial work is the monument to the slave-owner and colonial administrator Thomas Picton (1758–1815) in St. Paul's Cathedral.
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Gainsborough, Thomas
English portrait and landscape painter. Gainsborough painted a number of figures with connections to transatlantic slavery and colonialism during the eighteenth century. These include, for example, the absentee slave-owner and MP Charles Tudway (c. 1765) as well as The Byam Family (c.1762–66) and The Baillie Family (c. 1784). In 1768, Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ignatius Sancho, who was a Black British writer, composer, and abolitionist. Gainsborough also painted portraits of Robert Clive, credited with turning the British East India Company into an imperial state in India, and his son, Edward Clive. -
Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1885-1886; 1886-1892; 1895-1902). -
Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
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Geffrye, Robert
English merchant and slave trader in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Geffrye was a petitioner to the East India Company (1654), a Charter Member (1672) and Assistant (1691-2) of the Royal African Company, and Lord Mayor of London (1685-1686). -
George II
King of Great Britain and Ireland (1727-60). Like his father, George I, George II was also a governor and shareholder of the South Sea Company, which was involved in the transatlantic slave-trade through the Asiento contract.