George Barrington
Also known as: George Waldron
1755 – 1804
Irish

Public figure, author. As a youth, he was arrested in London for theft and sent with other convicts to Botany Bay in Australia. There he became a respected political figure and historian.

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1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1703–1791John Wesley
1688–1772Emmanuel Swedenborg
1720–1788Prince Charles Stuart
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1771–1832Sir Walter Scott
1788–1860Arthur Schopenhauer
1768–1834Friedrich Schleiermacher
1775–1854Friedrich von Schelling
1675–1755Louis Saint-Simon
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
1721–1764Jeanne Pompadour
1792–1878Pius IX
1771–1858Robert Owen
1801–1877Robert Dale Owen
1784–1885Sir Moses Montefiore
1689–1755Charles Montesquieu
1689–1762Lady Mary Montagu
1773–1836James Mill
1773–1859Klemens Metternich
1802–1876Harriet Martineau
1743–1793Jean Marat
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1800–1859Thomas Macaulay
1707–1778Carolus Linnaeus
1792–1866John Keble
1795–1821John Keats
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1770–1831Georg Hegel
1804–1872Ludwig Feuerbach
1797–1848Gaetano Donizetti
1804–1881Benjamin Disraeli
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1729–1797Edmund Burke
1778–1840George Brummell
1757–1827William Blake
1700–1782Daniel Bernoulli
1760–1797François-Noël Babeuf
1775–1817Jane Austen