The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford, publishing in the area of the Eighteenth century, especially the French Enlightenment.
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Lord Ashcroft, Michael Anthony
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, Conservative politician, occasional tax-payer.
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Dr John Venn
Logician and philosopher. Born Hull where his father was vicar of a local parish. Grandson of Rev John Venn. Inventor of the Venn diagram. In 1888 he seems to have tired of logic and turned to ...
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Sir Flinders Petrie
Archaeologist specialising in Egypt. Born Charlton, near Greenwich. His maternal grandfather was Captain Matthew Flinders. Petrie was a self-taught surveyor with minimal university education. St...
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Sir Kenneth Clark
Broadcaster and art historian. Born Kenneth Mackenzie Clark. He was keeper of the department of fine art at the Ashmolean Museum and Director of the National Gallery from 1934 to 1945. Came to nati...
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