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Percy Bysshe Shelley ·       Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 th August 1792 in Horsham. ·       His mother was Elizabeth Pilford, a Sussex landowner. ·       His father was Sir Timothy Shelley a Whig MP. ·       Percy Shelley was the eldest legitimate son of Sir Timothy. ·       He had four younger sisters and a much younger brother. ·       In 1804, Shelley attended Eton. ·       He was frequently bullied and had his books and clothes torn by the older boys. ·       He was interested in science and decided to blow a tree up with gunpowder. ·       Shelley earnt the nickname: ‘Mad Shelley’. ·       In 1810, Shelley began attending Oxford University. ·       Legend has it that he only attended ...

George III was the third monarch in the line of royalty known as the House of Hanover, which finished with the famous rule of Queen Victoria. Unlike many kings, George arranged his own political marriage and even kept a diary which has been kept in Windsor Castle.  The marriage he arranged was to Charlotte of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, together they produced fifteen children, two of which become kings of England and one was also the father of Queen Victoria. However the genius of a monarch is best known as being an insane man who lost America! But was he really mad? Certainly during his later years, King George III experienced several incidents where he went slightly crazy and the country had to be ruled by his greedy son, George (IV), the Prince of Wales; but the key question that has been studied by many people of society is: was he mad and if so, why?  Because there are medical reports from the times of his illness, which began to show in 1765, we can assume he was me...

The infamous picture of that woman on the English £5 note is Elizabeth Fry, a Quaker from Norwich.  She is famous for being a Victorian philanthropist because she changed the system of prison life in England.  Elizabeth was born on 21st April 1780 in Norwich to John Gurney, banker and owner of a factory, and Catherine Bell. As a child, Elizabeth was brought up with her mother's faith- a denomination of Christianity called Quaker. Part of a large family, she lived in Earlham Hall, built in 1642, with her ten siblings: Joseph, Samuel, Louisa, Daniel, Priscilla, Rachel, John, Hannah, Catherine and Richenda and their parents. At the age of twelve, Elizabeth's beloved mother died and so she had to assist in the bringing up of her brothers and sisters. As a youth, she embraced bright colours and wore French style hats in support of the French Revolution!  When Elizabeth was twenty, in 1800, she married a fellow Quaker- Joseph Fry. Together they had eleven children and m...