John Coustos (1703 in Bern – 1746) was an 18th-century Swiss businessman living in England. Coustos is primarily known for his involvement with Freemasonry...
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The first known Freemasons in Portugal were the Swiss John Coustos and two other Portuguese members of his lodge, who were arrested by the Portuguese Inquisition...
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Brook Taylor (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
LL.B. in 1709 and LL.D. in 1714. Taylor studied mathematics under John Machin and John Keill, leading to Taylor obtaining a solution to the problem of "center...
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Rothschild & Sons. From 1811 on, in negotiation with Commissary-General John Charles Herries, he undertook to transfer money to pay Wellington's troops...
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He was a patron of new forms of leisure, style and taste. He commissioned John Nash to build the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and remodel Buckingham Palace...
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manuscripts, some in Hebrew. In 1838, he introduced in a meeting scientist John Herschel, and the Duke gave a speech in which he spoke about the compatibility...
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3rd Earl of Sunderland, and Lady Anne Churchill, the second daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah Churchill, Duchess...
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General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705 – 27 April 1782) was a Scottish nobleman and British army officer. Born in Scotland two years before...
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Sir Robert de Cornwall Batty Langley Thomas Arne John Soane Joseph Banks Johan Zoffany John Coustos Hipólito da Costa Meyer Löw Schomberg Joseph Salvador...
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Sir Robert de Cornwall Batty Langley Thomas Arne John Soane Joseph Banks Johan Zoffany John Coustos Hipólito da Costa Meyer Löw Schomberg Joseph Salvador...
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