Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the development of modern sculpture in England.
Lieutenant-General William Tryon was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of North Carolina from 1764 to 1771 and the governor of New York from 1771 to 1777. He also served during the Seven Years' War,the Regulator Movement,and the American War of Independence.
Josiah Martin was a British Army officer and colonial official who served as the ninth and last British governor of North Carolina from 1771 to 1776.
William Plumsted was the mayor of Philadelphia in 1750,1754,and 1755.
St. Paul's Church is a historically evangelical Anglican church in downtown Halifax,Nova Scotia,within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island of the Anglican Church of Canada. It is located at the south end of the Grand Parade,an open square in downtown Halifax with Halifax City Hall at the northern end.
General Sir John Dalling,1st Baronet of Burwood Park in Surrey,was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
Christopher Billopp was a British loyalist during the American Revolution. His command of a Tory detachment during the war earned him the sobriquet,"Tory Colonel". After the American Revolution,he emigrated to New Brunswick,Canada along with other Loyalists and became a politician. He represented Saint John in the 1st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly.
Thurning is a small dispersed village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk and district of North Norfolk,near the border with Broadland. The population at the 2011 Census remained less than 100 and is recorded together with the neighbouring civil parish of Hindolveston.
Charles Boone,of Rook's Nest,in Tandridge,and Godstone,Surrey,was an East India Company officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 and 1734. He was a British governor of the Bombay Presidency from 1715 to 1722.
Thomas Hodges was the British Governor of Bombay from 28 September 1767 to 23 February 1771. He signed a peace treaty between the East India Company and Hyder Ali in 1770.
Sir Henry Halford,1st Baronet,GCH,born Henry Vaughan,was president of the Royal College of Physicians for 24 years. As the royal and society physician,he was physician extraordinary to King George III from 1793 to 1820,then as physician in ordinary to his three successors –George IV,William IV and the young Victoria. He also served other members of the royal family until his death.
John Bacon (1777–1859),also known as John Bacon the Younger,or Junior,to distinguish him from his equally famous father,was an English sculptor.
Sir Andrew Riccard was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654.
Henry St George Tucker (1771–1851) was an English financier and official of the East India Company. He was Accountant General in 1801 and again in 1805,and was Chairman of the Company in 1834 and 1847.
St Mary's Church,Twickenham,also known as St Mary the Virgin,Twickenham,is a Grade II* listed Church of England place of worship dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin. It is on Church Street,Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames,England.
John Hawks was an English-American architect active in the Province of North Carolina during the late colonial period. Born in Shipston-on-Stour,he worked under the Palladian architect Stiff Leadbetter. He accompanied William Tryon,the expectant governor of the Province of North Carolina,to New Bern in 1764. He was commissioned by Tryon to design and build Tryon Palace,a governor's mansion and assembly hall built from 1767 to 1770. He designed the St. Matthews Anglican Church in Hillsborough in 1768–1769,and drafted unbuilt designs for a church cupola and jail in Chowan County.
William Moffat was an English banker,merchant and politician.
Margaret Wake Tryon was an English heiress and the wife of William Tryon,who served as the Colonial Governor of North Carolina and the Colonial Governor of New York. The namesake of Wake County in North Carolina,she is one of three women,along with Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Virginia Dare,to have a North Carolinian county named after her. She was known for her interest in military strategy,which was controversial for upper-class women of her time.
Robert Wilson Ievers CMG was a British-born Ceylonese public servant.
