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Kingdom of Ireland
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Burke, Edmund
Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher in the eighteenth century. -
Carew, John Edward Irish sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
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Cole, Galbraith Lowry
British army officer and colonial administrator. Cole served as Governor of Mauritius from 1823 to 1828 and then the Cape Colony from 1828 to 1833. -
Farrell, Terrence Irish sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
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Gough, Hugh, 1st Viscount Gough
British Army officer in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Gough fought in a number of imperial conflicts across the globe, including in the Caribbean, China, and India. He was Commander-in-Chief in China during the First Opium War (1839-1842) and later Commander-in-Chief in India from 1843 to 1849. -
James MacArdell
Irish engraver and printmaker in the eighteenth century. -
Sloane, Hans
Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, collector, writer, and absentee Jamaican slave-owner, through his wife Elizabeth Langley Rose (the daughter of Folk Rose), during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Sloane spent time visiting in the Caribbean in 1687 and later recorded his experiences in the two volume work A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica (1707; 1725). He also held investments in both the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company. Sloane bequeathed more than 71,000 items to the United Kingdom upon his death, which provided the foundations for the British Museum (established in 1753), the British Library, and the Natural History Museum in London.