Jane's Contemporaries

James Lind: Medical Pioneer

a Scottish physician known for conducting the first ever clinical trial

Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter

The inspiration for Tennyson's Lord Burleigh

Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Raphael of flowers

Royal court painter at Marie Antoinette's Versailles.

The Swiss Family Robinson: "One of the most popular novels of all time"

Written in 1812 and translated into English by William Godwin in 1814

J. M. W. Turner: Painter of Light

English Romanticist landscape painter and subject of the award nominated film, Mr. Turner

William Herschel and the Bath Museum of Astronomy

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover, Her...

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua. His father was...