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James Wolfe
1727 – 1759
English

Soldier. He was a model of a gentleman conducting war, as was his great opponent the French general Montcalm. Both died at the climactic battle for Quebec.

Contemporaries
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1727–1797John Wilkes
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1759–1813John Venn
1732–1822William Tuke
1736–1812John Tooke
1750–1814Joanna Southcott
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1757–1818Sir Samuel Romilly
1735–1811Robert Raikes
1733–1804Joseph Priestley
1688–1744Alexander Pope
1759–1806William Pitt
1759–1806William Pitt the Younger
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1758–1805Horatio Nelson
1745–1833Hannah More
?–1734Lady Abigail Masharn
1746–1794Sir William Jones
1749–1823Edward Jenner
1705–1757David Hartley
1759–1834William Grenville
1751–1793Lord George Gordon
1756–1836William Godwin
1737–1794Edward Gibbon
1749–1806Charles Fox
fl. c. 1707–c. 1754Henry Fielding
1743–1823Edmund Cartwright
1750–1822John Debrett
1728–1779James Cook
1675–1729Samuel Clarke
1680–1740Ephraim Chambers
1740–1824John Cartwright
1692–1752Joseph Butler
1757–1824Richard Brothers
1695–1755Edward Braddock
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1728–1809Matthew Boulton
1678–1751Henry Bolingbroke
1754–1817William Bligh
1757–1827William Blake
1748–1832Jeremy Bentham
1743–1820Sir Joseph Banks
1732–1792Sir Richard Arkwright
?–1759Eleazar Albin