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John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
George III
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.
Robert Walpole
British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
British theatre composer (born 1948)
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
English soldier and statesman (1650-1722)
Michael Winner
English film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter (1935-2013)
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
British peer, philanthropist and humanitarian (1814-1906)
William Roscoe
English historian, abolitionist, art collector, politician, lawyer, banker, botanist and writer (1753-1831)
Thomas Hudson
British painter (1701-1779)
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
English diplomat (1585-1646)
Thomas Hope
Dutch-British writer, designer and architect (1769–1831)
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician (1851-1925)
Samuel Rogers
British poet; (1763-1855)
Alfred Beit
German born businessman and mining magnate in South Africa (1853-1906)
Lionel de Rothschild
UK art collector and politician (1808-1879); member of Parliament
Jonathan Richardson
English painter
Ferdinand James von Rothschild
British politician (1839-1898)
Ernest Cassel
British businessman (1852-1921)
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet
British landowner and MP. (1653-1709)
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet
British politician, art collector and philanthropist (1818-1890)
Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
British financier (1931-2022)
Frederick Richards Leyland
British businessman (1832-1892)
Arthur Morrison
English writer and journalist (1863–1945)
Joseph Smith
British diplomat and art collector (c. 1682–1770)
Leopold de Rothschild
British banker (1845–1917)
Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
British peer, politician and art collector (1800-1870)
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon
British politician (1857-1941)
Richard Payne Knight
English classical scholar and connoisseur (1750-1824)
Charlotte von Rothschild
German-born British socialite (1819-1884)
Denis Mahon
English art historian and collector (1910–2011)
William Bullock
Naturalist and collector from England (1773-1849)
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet
British businessman (1810–1876)
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild
English financier (1916-2009)
Samuel Courtauld
English industrialist and art collector
Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet
German-British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur (1865-1930)
Mary Impey
British naturalist, ornithologist and patron of the arts
Edward Solly
British merchant and art collector (1776-1844)
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
British politician (1868-1947)
George Cumberland
artist and art collector (1754-1848)
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
British politician
James Granger
English biographer
Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
British writer (1901-1965)
Ralph Bernal Osborne
British Liberal politician (1808–1882)
Frederick Stibbert
British art collector (1838–1906)
Antoine Seilern
British art historian, collector and museum benefactor (1901-1978)
John Talman
British antiquary; (1677-1726)
Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
British banker and art collector (1887-1961)
Frederick Layton
art collector (1827-1919)
Charles Townley
English art collector and antiquarian (1737–1805)
Felix Slade
British art collector
William Young Ottley
British art collector (1771-1836)
Henry Hope
British politician (1808-1862)
Julius Wernher
German businessman; art collector in London (1850-1912)
Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet
British floriculturist and Tory politician
Edmund Harvey
British politician (1875-1955)
Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate
British art collector (1817-1901)
Aglaia Coronio
British art collector (1834–1906)