Syed Al Razawi Ameer Ali (1846-1928) [PLOT119] Founder of the Muslim League.An Indian/British Indian jurist hailing from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down at Bengal Presidency. He was a prominent political leader, and author of a number of...

Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858)[PLOT 100]German pianist, composer, poet, and writer.Kinkel was an author of considerable merit. She wrote on musical subjects, including regular review articles of music events for the Bonner Zeitung, a newspaper she and her husband edited....

Dr Alice Vickery Drysdale (1844-1929) [PLOT 108]Doctor and promotor of birth control. President of Malthusian League.She was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her life...

Charles Robert Drysdale (1829-1907) [PLOT 108]Doctor and engineer. Founder of the Malthusian League. He was an English engineer, physician and public health scientist, and the first President of the Malthusian League. He published books on the topics of the evils of...

Bennet Graham Burleigh(1840-1914) [PLOT105]Journalist.Born in Glasgow, he began work as a shipping clerk at the age of 20. Shortly afterwards, he was forced to marry one of the family's servants after getting her pregnant. Burley left for North America with another...

SIR JAMES BRUNLEES (1816-1892) [PLOT 105]Civil Engineer.James was born in Kelso on 5th January 1816. He was sent to school at the age of six were he excelled in arithmetic and elementary mensuration. His father removed him from school when he was twelve and set him to...

Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1892-1985) [PLOT 100]Rupert Bear Cartoon Illustrator. Invited to take over the "Rupert Bear" strip in 1935 when its originator, Mary Tourtel, had to retire due to failing eyesight, he developed and wrote over 270 Rupert adventures, and...

William Henry Quilliam (1856-1932) [MUHAMMADAN PLOT] Unmarked GraveLawyer and prominent Muslim leader. William changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, he was a 19th-century convert from Christianity to Islam, noted...

Muhammad Marmaduke William Pickthall (1875-1936) [MUHAMMADAN PLOT]Novelist who also translated the Qur’an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world. A convert from Christianity, Pickthall was a...

Daniel Nichols (1833-1897)[PLOT 131] Founder of Café Royal in London. Born as Daniel Nicolas Thévenon in Champlost in Burgundy in France and the son of Jean Baptiste Thévenon, he was apprenticed to a coachbuilder in Sens before moving in the early 1850s to Paris,...