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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.
Robert Walpole
British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
English politician and Viscount (1678-1751)
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
British Army general (1673-1721)
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
English politician (1661-1724)
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
British statesman and nobleman from the Spencer family (1675-1722)
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
British soldier and Whig politician (1675-1749)
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
British nobleman and politician (1672-1729)
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
British nobleman
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet
British landowner and MP. (1653-1709)
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
English politician (1673-1744)
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin
British politician (1678-1766)
Cloudesley Shovell
English naval officer; (1650-1707)
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland
British politician (1676-1721)
Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe
English politician (1680-1758)
Joseph Dudley
Royal governor of Massachusetts (1647-1720)
John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
British soldier and author
Peter King, 1st Baron King
English politician; (1669-1734)
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
English noble, politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1665-1723)
Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton
Irish politician
William Bromley
English politician (1663-1732)
Sir Thomas Hanmer
4th Baronet Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Shakespearean editor (1677–1746)
John Smith
English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1655-1723)
Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford
English lawyer and politician
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
English politician (1665-1751)
John Aislabie
English politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow
English Speaker of the House of Commons (1654-1717)
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
British peer, soldier and politician
James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley
British Royal Navy officer and First Lord of the Admiralty (1679-1736)
Stephen Fox
English politician
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt
British politician; (1661-1727)
Charles Churchill
British soldier and politician (1656–1714)
George Churchill
Royal Navy admiral (1654-1710)
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower
English politician and Baron
Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
English politician
Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
British nobleman and politician; (1663-1743)
Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet
British politician (1633-1708)