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Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809-1882)
William Blake
English poet and artist (1757–1827)
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet (1806–1861)
John Wesley
founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
British historian and politician (1800–1859)
William Cowper
English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Erasmus Darwin
English physician (1731-1802)

Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.

John Newton
Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
British Prime Minister, politician (1782-1859)
Charles James Fox
British Whig statesman (1749–1806)

Josiah Wedgwood
English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)
Adam Sedgwick
English geologist (1785–1873)
Thomas Hodgkin
British pathologist and social reformer (1798-1866)

Hannah More
English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
James Oglethorpe
British Army general, founder of the Georgia colony (1696-1785)
Thomas Clarkson
English abolitionist (1760-1846)
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Wife of Clovis II
William Roscoe
English historian, abolitionist, art collector, politician, lawyer, banker, botanist and writer (1753-1831)
John Graves Simcoe
British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1752-1806)
Amelia Opie
English writer, novelist, abolitionist (1769-1853)
Granville Sharp
English abolitionist (1735-1813)

Susanna Moodie
Canadian writer (1803–1885)
Thomas Day
Thomas Day, English author and political campaigner (1748-1789)
Benjamin Lay
American Quaker activist
John Fothergill
English physician and plant collector (1712–1780)
Anne Knight
British suffragist (1786-1862)
Henry Thornton
English economist, banker, philanthropist and parliamentarian
Lewis Gompertz
English philosopher, writer, inventor, and social reformer (1783/4–1861)

Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo
Irish peer and colonial governor (1788-1845)
Marshall Hall
British neuroscientist (1790–1857)
Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
British politician; (1786-1845)
Josiah Wedgwood
British potter (1769-1843)
David Hartley
English politician, diplomat and inventor
Mary Anne Rawson
British activist

William Allen
English scientist and philanthropist (1770–1843)
Samuel Whitbread
English brewer and politician (1720–1796)
Elizabeth Jesser Reid
British philanthropist
William Smith
Independent British politician

Thomas Furly Forster
British botanist (1761-1825)
Elizabeth Pease Nichol
British activist
Josiah Conder
British writer (1789-1855)
Horace Waller
English anti-slavery activist, missionary, clergyman and lepidopterist (1833-1896)
James Stephen
British lawyer, slavery abolitionist and politician
Francis Augustus Cox
English Baptist minister
Joseph Sturge
English Quaker, abolitionist and activist; (1793-1859)
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English printer, writer, and social reformer (1760–1825)
Thomas Bray
English clergyman in America, colonial library pioneer
Thomas Tryon
English writer (1634–1703)
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English-American minister, activist, journalist, author, and politician (1827–1941)
James Elton
(1840-1877)
John Angell James
British abolitionist
Elizabeth Ashurst Biggs
English Victorian-era novelist and activist
George Thompson
British antislavery orator and activist

Elizabeth Heyrick
British philanthropist (1769-1831)
Samuel Morley
British Member of Parliament