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English book and manuscript collectors

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George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

English historian and politician (1737–1794)

Scottish author

English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1847–1929)

writer, gardener and diarist (1620-1706)

British photographer (1952–2025)

Richard de Bury

Bishop of Durham; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor of England; Lord High Treasurer of England (1287-1345)

English linguist and lexicographer

Anthony Collins

English philosopher (1676-1729)

Christopher Robin Milne

English author and bookseller (1920–1996)

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

English politician (1661-1724)

British-Romanian academic and rabbi

George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer

British Whig politician (1758-1834)

16th-century English historian and antiquarian

English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian

Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington

English antiquarian (1571-1631)

George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough

British politician (1766-1840)

Henry Spencer Ashbee

Book collector/writer/bibliographer (1834-1900)

Thomas Phillipps

British antiquarian and book collector (1792-1872)

Frederick James Furnivall

English lexicographer (1825–1910)

Elkan Nathan Adler

English author, lawyer, historian (1861-1946)

Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

British politician, bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts (1689-1741)

Holbrook Jackson

British journalist (1874-1948)

British historian (1903–1997)

British bibliophile; (1773-1833)

Geoffrey Keynes

English surgeon and bibliophile (1887–1982)

Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington

English politician and Earl (1652-1694)

Frederick Locker-Lampson

British poet (1821-1895)

Edward Francis Rimbault

English musicologist, composer, organist and book collector (1816–1876)

Abraham Fleming

English writer and clergyman (c. 1552–1607)

British bibliographer and librarian

Richard Copley Christie

British educationalist, academic, philanthropist (1830-1901)

British politician, merchant, collector and slave owner (1757–1837)

English antiquary

English antiquary