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1. Histories of noble British families : with biographical notices of the most distinguished individuals in each : illustrated by their armorial bearings, portraits, monuments, seals, etc.

Creator:: Drummond, Henry, 1786–1860
Date:: 1842-1846
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Georgian era: memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth.

Date:: 1832-34
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain / engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue ; with their lives and characters by Thomas Birch.

Creator:: Birch, Thomas, 1705–1766
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: [2], 216 pages, [108] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Old England's worthies: a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies, with illustrative woodcuts, and twelve splendid illuminated engravings.

Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., 272 p. col. front., col. plates, ports. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London : with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources / by John Bayley, Esq., F.S.A. of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of His Majesty's Sub-Commissioners on the Public Records ; in two parts ; Part I[-II].

Creator:: Bayley, John, -1869
Date:: 1821-1825
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A biographical history of England, from the revolution to the end of George I's reign : being a continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's work: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads; interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons ... / The materials being supplied by the manuscripts left by Mr. Granger, and the collections of the editor, the Rev. Mark Noble ...

Creator:: Noble, Mark, 1754–1827
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

Creator:: Towers, Joseph, 1737–1799
Date:: 1766-1780
Physical Description:: 10 v. ports. (incl. fronts.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Old England's worthies : a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies / by Lord Brougham, and other distinguished authors.

Date:: [1862?]
Physical Description:: 5 p. ., vii-viii, lxxxiv, 272 p. front., ill., plates (part. col.) 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons : from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant. / By James Caulfield ...

Creator:: Caulfield, James, 1764–1826
Date:: 1819-1820
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : frontispiece, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Memorials and characters, together with the lives of divers eminent and worthy persons ... : from the year one thousand six hundred to the present time / collected and compiled from above one hundred and fifty different authors, several scarce pieces and some original manuscripts, communicated to the editor ; to which is added, an appendix of monumental inscriptions, in Latin and English ...

Creator:: Wilford, John, active 1716–1742
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [8], iv, 788, 42, [2] p. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Noble dames and notable men of the Georgian era / byJohn Fyvie.

Creator:: Fyvie, John
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: vi, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. A painter of dreams and other biographical studies, by A.M.W. Stirling. With 15 illus.

Creator:: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina), 1865–1965
Date:: 1916
Physical Description:: xvi, 366 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

Creator:: Turberville, Arthur Stanley, 1888–1945
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xxiii, 539 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. The Spencers : a personal history of an English family / Charles Spencer.

Creator:: Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964–
Date:: c2000
Physical Description:: xvi, 350 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Portraits of the nineties / by E. T. Raymond [pseud] with 20 illustrations.

Creator:: Raymond, E. T., b. 1872
Date:: [1921]
Physical Description:: 319 p. : front., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Memoirs of celebrated Etonians / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Members of Parliament, 1734-1832, by Gerrit P. Judd, IV.

Creator:: Judd, Gerrit Parmele, 1915–
Date:: 1972 [c1955]
Physical Description:: vii, 389 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Dictionary of national biography. [Second] supplement, January 1901-December 1911, v. 1-3. Edited by Sir Sidney Lee.

Date:: [1920]
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Aubrey's Brief lives. Edited from the original manuscripts and with an introd. by Oliver Lawson Dick.

Creator:: Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: cxiv, 419 p. illus. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightinggale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon.

Creator:: Strachey, Lytton, 1880–1932
Date:: c1969
Physical Description:: xi, 351 p., 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Notices of the historic persons buried in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the Tower of London. With an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn. By Doyne C. Bell, F. S. A. ...

Creator:: Bell, Doyne C. (Doyne Courtenay), 1831–1888
Date:: 1877
Physical Description:: xiii, [1] p., 1 l., 340 p. incl. front., illus., 4 pl., 2 plans. 1 fold. pl. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. The Dictionary of national biography, founded in 1882 by George Smith. The concise dictionary.

Date:: [1953]-61
Physical Description:: 2 v. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. The British establishment, 1760-1784; an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary, by Alan Valentine.

Creator:: Valentine, Alan, 1901–1980
Date:: [1970]
Physical Description:: 2 v. (xii, 960 p.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. A historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities.

Creator:: Westminster Abbey
Date:: [1870?]
Physical Description:: 132 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Dictionary of national biography, 1961-1970 / Edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls, with an index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series.

Dictionary of national biography, 1961-1970 / Edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls, with an index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series.

Date:: 1981
Physical Description:: xviii, 1178 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. English eccentrics and eccentricities. By John Timbs ...

Creator:: Timbs, John, 1801–1875
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Personalities of the eighteenth century / by Grace A. Murray (Mrs. Keith Murray) with a foreword by Nigel Playfair.

Creator:: Murray, Grace A.
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 230 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

28. A correct catalogue of the works of Mr. West.

Collection:: Reference Library

29. Lives of the Georgian age, 1714-1837 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, William Gould, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

Creator:: Laurence Urdang Associates
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: xi, 516 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Bunhill Fields : written in honour and to the memory of the many saints of God whose bodies rest in this old London cemetery / by Alfred W. Light. With chart of the ground ...

Creator:: Light, Alfred W
Date:: 1913-
Physical Description:: v. : front., ill., plates, ports., plan. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Minor lives : a collection of biographies / by John Nicols. Annotated and with an introduction on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century. Edward L. Hart, editor.

Minor lives : a collection of biographies / by John Nicols. Annotated and with an introduction on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century. Edward L. Hart, editor.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: xxxii, 2 unnumbered pages, 367 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes 1948 : Seventy-fourth annual edition.

Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: xc, 2190 pages : advertisements ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

33. 'Brief lives', chiefly of contemporaries, : set down by John Aubrey, between the years 1669 & 1696 / edited from the author's mss. by Andrew Clark ...

Creator:: Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Last homes of departed genius; with biographical sketches of poets, painters, and players. By T.P. Grinsted ..

Creator:: Grinsted, T. P
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: xiii, 304 p. front., plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. The outdoor monuments of London; statues, memorial buildings, tablets and war memorials, by C.S. Cooper, illustrated from photographs specially taken by Will. F. Taylor.

Creator:: Cooper, Charles Samuel, 1862–
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: 236 p. plates, ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. Effie : a Victorian scandal / Merryn Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Merryn
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: x, 220 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Dictionary of national biography : supplement [Twentieth century]

Date:: [1920-71]
Physical Description:: 6 v. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Biographical catalogue of the pictures at Woburn Abbey. Compiled by Adeline Marie Tavistock and Ela M. S. Russell.

Creator:: Bedford, Adeline Marie Somers-Cocks Russell, Duchess of, 1852–1920
Date:: 1890-[1892?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Lives of the Tudor age, 1485-1603 / by Ann Hoffmann.

Creator:: Hoffmann, Ann
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: xi, 500 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Genial company : the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture / catalogue written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor ; exhibition organised by Joanne Wright and Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

Creator:: Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
Date:: 1987.]
Physical Description:: [84] p. : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. The beaux of the Regency, by Lewis Melville.

Creator:: Benjamin, Lewis Saul, 1874–1932
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Report, preceded by copies of a letter from the Office of Works, &c., and of resolutions of the Council.

Creator:: Society of Antiquaries of London. Sepulchral Monuments Committee
Date:: 1872
Physical Description:: 57 p. 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Lives of the Stuart age, 1603-1714 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, Edwin Riddell, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

Creator:: Laurence Urdang Associates
Date:: 1976
Physical Description:: xi, 500 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. The Cabinet portrait gallery. Reproduced from original photographs by W. & D. Downey.

Date:: 1890-94
Physical Description:: 5 v. mounted fronts., mounted ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Norfolk church monuments, by C.L.S. Linnell and Stanley J. Waering.

Creator:: Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: xiv, 56 p. illus. (part col.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Histories of noble British families : with biographical notices of the most distinguished individuals in each : illustrated by their armorial bearings, portraits, monuments, seals, etc.

2. The Georgian era: memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth.

3. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain / engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue ; with their lives and characters by Thomas Birch.

4. Old England's worthies: a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies, with illustrative woodcuts, and twelve splendid illuminated engravings.

7. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

8. Old England's worthies : a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies / by Lord Brougham, and other distinguished authors.

9. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons : from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant. / By James Caulfield ...

11. Noble dames and notable men of the Georgian era / byJohn Fyvie.

12. A painter of dreams and other biographical studies, by A.M.W. Stirling. With 15 illus.

13. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

14. The Spencers : a personal history of an English family / Charles Spencer.

15. Portraits of the nineties / by E. T. Raymond [pseud] with 20 illustrations.

16. Memoirs of celebrated Etonians / by John Heneage Jesse.

17. Members of Parliament, 1734-1832, by Gerrit P. Judd, IV.

18. Dictionary of national biography. [Second] supplement, January 1901-December 1911, v. 1-3. Edited by Sir Sidney Lee.

19. Aubrey's Brief lives. Edited from the original manuscripts and with an introd. by Oliver Lawson Dick.

20. Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightinggale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon.

21. Notices of the historic persons buried in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the Tower of London. With an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn. By Doyne C. Bell, F. S. A. ...

22. The Dictionary of national biography, founded in 1882 by George Smith. The concise dictionary.

23. The British establishment, 1760-1784; an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary, by Alan Valentine.

24. A historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities.

25. Dictionary of national biography, 1961-1970 / Edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls, with an index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series.

26. English eccentrics and eccentricities. By John Timbs ...

27. Personalities of the eighteenth century / by Grace A. Murray (Mrs. Keith Murray) with a foreword by Nigel Playfair.

28. A correct catalogue of the works of Mr. West.

29. Lives of the Georgian age, 1714-1837 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, William Gould, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

30. Bunhill Fields : written in honour and to the memory of the many saints of God whose bodies rest in this old London cemetery / by Alfred W. Light. With chart of the ground ...

31. Minor lives : a collection of biographies / by John Nicols. Annotated and with an introduction on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century. Edward L. Hart, editor.

32. Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes 1948 : Seventy-fourth annual edition.

33. 'Brief lives', chiefly of contemporaries, : set down by John Aubrey, between the years 1669 & 1696 / edited from the author's mss. by Andrew Clark ...

34. Last homes of departed genius; with biographical sketches of poets, painters, and players. By T.P. Grinsted ..

35. The outdoor monuments of London; statues, memorial buildings, tablets and war memorials, by C.S. Cooper, illustrated from photographs specially taken by Will. F. Taylor.

36. Effie : a Victorian scandal / Merryn Williams.

37. Dictionary of national biography : supplement [Twentieth century]

38. Biographical catalogue of the pictures at Woburn Abbey. Compiled by Adeline Marie Tavistock and Ela M. S. Russell.

39. Lives of the Tudor age, 1485-1603 / by Ann Hoffmann.

40. Genial company : the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture / catalogue written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor ; exhibition organised by Joanne Wright and Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

41. The beaux of the Regency, by Lewis Melville.

42. Report, preceded by copies of a letter from the Office of Works, &c., and of resolutions of the Council.

43. Lives of the Stuart age, 1603-1714 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, Edwin Riddell, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

44. The Cabinet portrait gallery. Reproduced from original photographs by W. & D. Downey.

45. Norfolk church monuments, by C.L.S. Linnell and Stanley J. Waering.