Hvem daterte Mary Robinson (poet)?

Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757 – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and celebrity figure. She lived in England, in the cities of Bristol and London; she also lived in France and Germany for a time. She enjoyed poetry from the age of seven and started working, first as a teacher and then as an actress, from the age of 14. She wrote many plays, poems and novels. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She earned her nickname "Perdita" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) in 1779, and was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson is the author of the Gothic novels Vancenza; or, the Dangers of Credulity (1792) and Hubert de Sevrac (1796).

Georg IV August Fredrik (engelsk George Augustus Frederick, tysk Georg IV August Friedrich (født 12. august 1762 i St. James's Palace, død 26. juni 1830 i Windsor Castle) var prinsregent i 1811–1820 og konge av Storbritannia og Irland og Hannover fra 1820 til 1830. Han var medlem av det tyske fyrstehuset Hannover.

Han var eldste sønn av Georg III av Storbritannia, Irland og Hannover og Sophie Charlotte av Mecklenburg-Strelitz og styrte fra 1811 som prinsregent på bakgrunn av sin fars sinnssykdom. Hans regentskap (engelsk: regency) ga navn til perioden, dens arkitektur og dens moter. Georg IV fikk arkitekten John Nash til å bygge Royal Pavilion i Brighton og ombygge Buckingham Palace, samt Jeffry Wyattville til å gjenreise Windsor-slottet.

I hemmelighet hadde han giftet seg med en katolikk, Maria Fitzherbert, i 1785. I 1795 giftet han seg offisielt med Caroline av Braunschweig, som han forgjeves prøvde å skille seg fra etter å ha blitt konge i 1820. (Caroline døde i 1821.) Deres eneste barn, den 21-årige prinsesse Charlotte, døde etter selv å ha satt et dødfødt barn til verden i 1817.

Georg IV ble den mest forhatte av Hannover-kongene. Befolkningen hatet ham for å leve i luksus og overflod på en tid da jevne folk sultet på grunn av krigen med Frankrike, og det var oppløp i gatene etter brød. Georg selv var smellfet, men fikk likevel dikteren Leigh Hunt idømt en bot på 500 pund og fengslet i to år for å ha kalt kongen «en feit adonis på 50».

Da Georg IV døde i 1830, ble han etterfulgt på tronen av sin yngre bror Vilhelm.

George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex FSA (13 November 1757 – 23 April 1839) was an English aristocrat and politician, and styled Viscount Malden until 1799. His surname was Capell until 1781.

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder").

Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though at that time with rather conservative and conventional opinions. However, with the coming of the American War of Independence and the influence of the Whig Edmund Burke, Fox's opinions evolved into some of the most radical to be aired in the British Parliament of his era.

Fox became a prominent and staunch opponent of King George III, whom he regarded as an aspiring tyrant. He supported the American Patriots and even dressed in the colours of George Washington's army. Briefly serving as Britain's first Foreign Secretary during the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782, he returned to the post in a coalition government with his old enemy, Lord North, in 1783. However, the King forced Fox and North out of government before the end of the year and replaced them with the 24-year-old Pitt the Younger. Fox spent the following 22 years facing Pitt and the government from the opposition benches of the House of Commons.

Though Fox had little interest in the actual exercise of power and spent almost the entirety of his political career in opposition, he became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty. His friendship with his mentor, Burke, and his parliamentary credibility were both casualties of Fox's support for France during the French Revolutionary Wars, but Fox went on to attack Pitt's wartime legislation and to defend the liberty of religious minorities and political radicals. After Pitt's death in January 1806, Fox served briefly as Foreign Secretary in the 'Ministry of All the Talents' of William Grenville before he died on 13 September 1806, aged 57.

Banastre Tarleton (født 21. august 1754, død 25. januar 1833) var en britisk general og politiker. Hans rykte som hensynsløs gav ham kallenavnet «Bloody Ban» og «Butcher» blant amerikanske patrioter under den amerikanske uavhengighetskrigen. Britene regnet ham som en eksepsjonelt dyktig leder av lett kavaleri.

Tarleton ble fremstilt svært ufordelaktig i den amerikanske filmen Patrioten fra 2000.