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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

14. 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

15. Effie : a Victorian scandal / Merryn Williams.

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

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

Collection:: Reference Library

17. 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

18. 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

19. '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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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 ...

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

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

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

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

15. Effie : a Victorian scandal / Merryn Williams.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. 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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

31. 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.

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

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

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

35. 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.