Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne is a spiritual testament and early psychological self-portrait. Published in 1643 after an unauthorized version was distributed the previous year, it became a European best-seller which brought its author fame at home and abroad.
Arthur Dee was a physician and alchemist. He became physician successively to Tsar Michael I of Russia and to King Charles I of England.
Daniel Rutherford Haldane FRSE PRCPE was a prominent Scottish physician, who became president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1881.
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a German princess who married successively Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels, as well as her first-cousin, Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Frederica became a British princess and Duchess of Cumberland when she married Ernest Augustus, the fifth son and eighth child of King George III. She was Queen of Hanover from Ernest's accession as king on 20 June 1837 until her death in 1841.
Leopold the Good was Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1690 to his death. He is the direct male ancestor of all rulers of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, including all Emperors of Austria.
St Mary's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which also operates Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital.
Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his only child to survive infancy.
GuyPatin was a French doctor and man of letters.
Charles II was ruler of the state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1794 until his death. Originally ruling as duke, he was raised to the rank of grand duke in 1815. Prior to succeeding to the throne he served as Governor of Hanover from 1776 to 1786.
Charlotte of Savoy was queen of France as the second spouse of Louis XI. She served as regent during the king's absence in 1465, and was a member of the royal regency council during her son's minority in 1483.
Dwight Baldwin was an American Christian missionary and medical doctor on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, during the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that founded some of the largest businesses in the islands.
Madeleine Patin, born Madeleine Hommetz, was a French moralist author.
Charlotte-Catherine Patin was a 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic.
Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin was a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century.
Taylor Combe FRS was an English numismatist and archæologist.
Rogers Ruding (1751–1820) was an English cleric and academic, known as a numismatist and the author of the Annals of the Coinage. He was the Vicar of Malden, Surrey from 1793 until his death in 1820. Prior to his marriage in May 1793, he was the Reverend Clerk at St George's, Bloomsbury, in London.
The Charlotte Medal is a silver medallion, 74 millimetres (2.9 in) in diameter, depicting the voyage of the convict transport Charlotte, with the First Fleet, to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Its obverse depicts the ship and the reverse is inscribed with a description of the journey. Struck by convict Thomas Barrett upon arriving in Botany Bay aboard Charlotte in January 1788, the medal is said to be the first work of Australian colonial art. Within a month, Barrett became the first person to be executed in the new colony.
Charles Drelincourt was a French physician.
Jean Remy Marie Jules, baron de Chestret de Haneffe (1833—1909) was a Belgian numismatist and bibliophile who was also mayor of Donceel (1879—1885).
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