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Born May 23, 1718 • Scotland
Died March 30, 1783 (aged 64) • London • England

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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge
British economist
Sir John Pringle, detail of an engraving by W.H. Mote after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Philip Sargent
British statesman
Sir Hugh Allen, drawing by John Singer Sargent, 1925; in the British Museum
Sir Hugh Allen
British organist and musical educator
Michel Saint-Denis
French director
William Temple
William Temple
archbishop of Canterbury
Curwen, detail of an oil painting by W. Gush; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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British educator
James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
James Lind
British physician
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
British historian and government official
Alexander Monro, primus
Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
Dyce, William: Neptune Resigning the Empire of the Seas to Britannia
William Dyce
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Tobias Matthay
British musician
Francis Hauksbee, the Younger
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Sir Leon Brittan
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Douglas Richard Hurd
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