Index of Political Figures

Political figures included in Gillray's prints (correlating to the tags). Organized alphabetically by last name and linked to the individual's Wikipedia page. 

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Sir Robert Adair (1763-1855): A distinguished English diplomat and sergeant-surgeon to George III.

Henry Addington (1757-1844): 1st Viscount Sidmouth. A British statesman, and Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804. He is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavorable peace with France.

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793): Born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792.

Richard Pepper Arden (1744-1804): 1st Baron Alvanley. A British barrister and Whig politician, who served as the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Frederick Augustus (1763-1827): Duke of York and Albany. The second eldest child and second son of King George III of the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Hanover.

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Élisa Bonaparte (1777-1820): Princess of Lucca and Piombino, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Countess of Compignano. A younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Oliver Bond (1760?-1798): An Irish merchant and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Society of United Irishmen.

Richard Brothers (1757-1824): An early believer and teacher of Anglo-Israelism (alias British-Israelism). Served in the Royal Naval and was honorably discharged 28 July 1783.

John Bull: A national personification of Great Britain in general and England particular, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works.

Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844): 5th Baronet. An English reformist politician.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): An Irish statesman born in Dublin; author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.

George Byng (1764-1847): A British Whig politician who was an early associate of Charles James Fox. 

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Elizabeth Canning (1734-1773): An English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month.

George Canning (1770-1827): A British statesman and Tory politician who served in various senior cabinet positions under numerous Prime Ministers, before serving himself as Prime Minister the final four months of his life.

William Cobbett (1763-1835): An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm laborers.

Admiral Sir John Colpoys (1742-1821): An officer of the British Royal Navy who served in three wars but is most notable for being one of the catalysts of the Spithead Mutiny in 1797 after ordering his marines to fire on a deputation of mutinous sailors.

Admiral Sir Roger Curtis (1746-1816): 1st Baronet. An officer of the British Royal Navy, who saw action in several battles during an extensive career that was punctuated by a number of highly controversial incidents.

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Charles François Dumouriez (1739-1823): A French general during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Adam Duncan (1731-1804): 1st Viscount Duncan. A British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown on 11 October 1797. This victory was considered one of the most significant actions in naval history.

Henry Dundas (1742-1811): 1st Viscount Melville. A Scottish advocate and Tory politician.

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Thomas Erskine (1750-1823): 1st Baron Erskine. A British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.

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Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798): An Irish aristocrat and revolutionary who died of wounds received while resisting arrest on a charge of treason.

Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837): A longtime companion of the future King George IV of the United Kingdom with whom she secretly contracted a marriage that was invalid under English civil law before his accession to the throne.

Augustus Henry Fitzroy (1735-1811): 3rd Duke of Grafton. A British Whig statesman of the Georgian era who became Prime Minister in 1768.

Charles James Fox (1749-1806): A prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

Elizabeth Bridget Fox (1750-1842): Previously Elizabeth Armistead. A courtesan who later became the spouse of statesman and politician Charles James Fox.

Henry Richard Fox (1773-1840): 3rd Baron Holland. An English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. Nephew of Charles James Fox.

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Admiral Alan Gardner (1742-1809): 1st Baron Gardner. A British Royal Naval officer.

King George III (1738-1820): George William Frederick was the King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.

King George IV (1762-1830): George Augustus Frederick was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover following the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820.

Henry Grattan (1746-1820): An Irish politician and member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century.

William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834): 1st Baron Grenville. A British Whig statesmen who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807.

Charles Grey (1764-1845): 2nd Earl Grey. A member of the Whig Party who backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act of 1832.

Cornelius Grogan (1738?-1798): Eldest son of John Grogan of Johnstown Castle, Wexford, who joined the insurgents, and eventually became commissary-general in their army, at the outbreak of the Irish rebellion of 1798.

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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751-1830): An English Orientalist and philologist. Was a close companion of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

George Hanger (1751-1824): 4th Baron Coleraine. A British soldier and author.

Thomas Hardy (1769-1839): 1st Baronet. A Royal Navy officer who took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent, Battle of the Nile and Battle of Copenhagen during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Edward Harley (1726-1790): 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Eldest son of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of OXford and Earl Mortimer and succeeded his father's titles on his death in 1755. 

Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey (?-1798): A barrister and a commander of the United Irishmen in the Battle of New Ross during the 1798 Rebellion.

Francis Rawdon Hastings (1754-1826): 1st Marquess of Hastings. An Anglo-Irish British politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823.

Charles Howard (1746-1815): 11th Duke of Norfolk. Known for actively participating in the Whig part as part of the opposition to King George III.

Frederick Howard (1748-1825): 5th Earl of Carlisle. A British diplomat who was appointed guardian to Lord Byron in 1798.

Admiral Richard Howe (1726-1799): 1st Earl Howe. British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War.

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Joseph Jekyll (1754-1837): A British Member of Parliament for Calne, Wiltshire.

Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828): 2nd Earl of Liverpool. An English politician and both the youngest and longest-serving Prime Minister.

John Jervis (1735-1823): 1st Earl of St Vincent. An admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars.

Mrs. Dorothy Jordan (1761-1816): (Dorothea Jordan) An Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan and the mistress and companion of the future King William IV for 20 years while he was the Duke of Clarence.

Empress Joséphine (1763-1814): The first wife of Napoléon I.

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Edward Law (1750-1818): 1st Baron Ellenborough. An English judge who after serving as a member of parliament and Attorny General became Lord Chief Justice. 

Charles Lennox (1735-1806): 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Aubigny. A British politician and British Army officer who was associated with the Rockingham Whigs.

King Louis XVI (1754-1793): Also known as Louis Capet. King of France from 1774 until his deposition in 1792.

King Louis XVII (1785-1795): Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy. Was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

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James Maitland (1759-1839): 8th Earl of Lauderdale. A representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords.

David Murray (1727-1796): 2nd Earl of Mansfield. Known as The Viscount Stormont from 1748 to 1793.

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Napoléon I (1769-1821): A French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and its associated wars.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726): An English physicist and mathematician.

Frederick North (1732-1792): 2nd Earl of Guilford. More often known by his courtesy title, Lord North. Led Great Britain through most of the American War Independence.

George Nugent-Temple-Grenville (1753-1813): 1st Marquess of Buckingham. A British statesman.

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Arthur O'Connor (1763-1852): A United Irishman and later a general in Napoléon's army.

Admiral Sir Richard Onslow (1741-1817): 1st Baronet. An English naval officer who played a distinguished role at the Battle of Camperdown.

P


Thomas Paine (1737-1809): An English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

Admiral Sir Hyde Parker: (1714-1782) 5th Baronet. A British naval commander.

James Paull (1770-1808): A Scottish politician and duellist.

Spencer Perceval (1762-1812): Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1809 to 1812. The only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated.

William Petty (1737-1805): 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne. An Irish-born British Whig statesman.

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (1780-1863): 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne. Known as Lord Henry Petty. Served as Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord President of the Council

General John Pitt (1756-1835): 2nd Earl of Chatham. A British soldier and politician best known for commanding the disastrous Walcheren Campaign of 1809.

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806): A British politician of the late 18th and early 19th century. Prime Minister in 1783 and 1804.

Pope Pius VI (1717-1799): Giovanni Angelo Braschi. Pope who condemned the French Revolution.

Pope Pius VII (1742-1823): Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti. Reigned as Pope from 14 March 1800 to his death in 1823.

Richard Price (1723-1791): A Welsh moral philosopher and nonconformist preacher.

Dr. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804): An 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist.

Sir William Pulteney (1729-1805): 5th Baronet. A Scottish advocate, landowner and politician.

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Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794): A French lawyer and politician who was an important figure during the Reign of Terror.

George Rose (1744-1818): A British politician who was a close companion of William Pitt the Younger.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): A Genevan philosopher whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution.

Francis Russell (1765-1802): 5th Duke of Bedford. An English aristocrat and Whig politician.

John Russell (1766-1839): 6th Duke of Bedford. A British Whig politician who notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

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Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (1759-1801): A senior British Royal Navy officer who served during the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): A Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.

Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1751-1804): An English politician, mathematician and astronomer.

Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835): 1st Baronet. A Scottish politician and awriter on finance and agriculture.

Edward Smith-Stanley (1752-1834): 12th Earl of Derby. A British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries/

George John Spencer (1758-1834): A British Whig politician who served as Home Secretary from 1806 to 1807.

Charles Stanhope (1753-1816): 3rd Earl Stanhope. A British statesman and scientist who was the brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger.

Robert Stewart (1769-1822): 2nd Marquees of Londondeery. An Irish and British statesman who was the leader of the British House of Commons from 1812 to 1822.

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Michael Angelo Taylor (1757-1834): An English politician who became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn and eventually entered the House of Commons.

Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1766-1839): 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. A British landowner and politician.

John Thelwall (1764-1834): A radical British orator, writer and elocutionist.

Sir Charles Thompson (1740-1799): 1st Baronet. A British naval officer who was second in command at the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

George Tierney (1761-1830): An Anglo-Irish Whig politician.

John Horne Tooke (1736-1812): An English politician and philologist.

Thomas Townshend (1733-1800): 1st Viscount Sydney. A British politician who held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century.

Sir Henry Trollope (1756-1839): An officer of the British Royal Navy.

V


Voltaire (1694-1778): A French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher.

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George Walpole (1758-1835): A British soldier and politician who gained distinction after suppressing the Maroon insurrection in Jamaica in 1795.

Alexander Wedderburn (1733-1805): 1st Earl of Rosslyn. Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1793 to 1801.

Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815): A British politician who was a close colleague of Charles James Fox.

King William IV (1765-1837): King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 1830 to 1837. Previously the Duke of Clarence.

William Wilberforce (1759-1833): An English politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.