Images Dated 29th July 2005 (page 74)

John (1882-1942) and Lionel (1878-1954) Barrymore, American stage and screen actors. The Barrymore brothers came from a family with an illustrious theatre tradition

Alfred Barry (1826-1910), English clergyman and scholar, c1880. The son of the architect Sir Charles Barry, Alfred Barry was Archbishop of Sydney, and Primate of Australia from 1884-1889

John Barrow (1764-1848), English traveller and naval administrator. Between 1804-1845 Barrow held the position of second secretary to the Admiralty

Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), English mathematician and cleric. Barrow became Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1663, a post from which he resigned in 1669 to make way for Isaac Newton

Birthplace of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street are among Barries best known works

Signature of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist. Artist: JM Barrie
Signature of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist. Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street are among his best known works

James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist, c1895. Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street are among his best known works

Wilson Barrett (1846-1904), English theatrical actor-manager, c1890. Barrett was an actor-manager of the old school against which Henry Arthur Jones and Arthur Wing Pinero reacted

Paul Jean Francois Nicolas, Comte de Barras (1755-1829), French revolutionary. A soldier, Barras advanced in revolutionary France to become one of the five Directors who controlled the government of

Jean Augustin Barral (1819-1884), French agricultural chemist, 1884. Barral was the first to extract nicotine from tobacco leaf

Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), American showman, 1864. Barnum was founder of what became the biggest circus in the world

William Henry Barlow (1812-1902), British civil engineer. He invented the Barlow saddleback rail (1859) and was the engineer of St Pancras Station (1868) and the New Tay Bridge (1882)

Ships of Willem Barents expedition to the Arctic, 1596. Barents (d 1597) was a Dutch navigator who led expeditions in 1594, 1595 and 1596-1597 in search of a Northeast Passage to Asia

Winter quarters of Willem Barents expedition to the Arctic, 1596-1597. Barents (d 1597) was a Dutch navigator who led expeditions in 1594, 1595 and 1596-1597 in search of a Northeast Passage to Asia

Willem Barents ship among the Arctic ice, 1594-1597. Barents (d 1597) was a Dutch navigator who led expeditions in 1594, 1595 and 1596-1597 in search of a Northeast Passage to Asia

Frederick I, Barbarossa (Redbeard) (c1123-1190), Holy Roman Emperor, 19th century. Frederick, Duke of Swabia, succeeded his uncle Conrad III as Holy Roman Emperor in 1152

Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941), Canadian physiologist, 1923. Banting and his assistant, CH Best, discovered insulin in 1921

Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English botanist and plant collector, 1802. Banks sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour on his expedition of 1768-1771

Mrs Bancroft (nee Marie Wilton) (1840-1921), English actress, c1890
Marie Bancroft (nee Wilton) (1840-1921), English actress, c1890. Marie Bancroft was famous for her partnership with her husband, the actor and theatre manager Squire Bancroft

Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English theatrical actor-manager, c1890. Famous for his partnership with his wife Marie (Wilton)

Thomas Bambridge (fl1729), Warden of the Fleet Prison, London. In 1728 Bambridge was the subject of a Parliamentary enquiry into his cruelty

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist and literary critic. Balzac qualified as a lawyer, but abandoned the legal profession for literature

Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776-1847), French social and religious philosopher. Ballanches ideas influenced the Romantic writers

Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913), Irish astronomer and mathematician, c1890. A populariser of science, Ball served as Lord Rosses astronomer at Parsonstown, in Ireland

Professor Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882), Scottish embryologist, 1882. The brother of Conservative statesman AJ Balfour, Francis Balfour was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc

Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), Scottish-born British statesman and philosopher. Balfour served as Prime Minister of the Conservative government of 1902-1905

Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), lst Earl Bewdley, British Conservative politician, c1932. First elected to Parliament in 1906, Baldwin served as Prime Minister in 1923-1931, and again in 1935-1937

Robert Bakewell (1725-1795), English agriculturist. Bakewell improved sheep and cattle, particularly New Leicester (Dishley) sheep and Longhorn cattle, by selective breeding at his home

Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1529), Spanish explorer, late 19th century. Balboa founded a colony at Darien, in what is today Panama. He was the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean

Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, 1865. With Speke and Grant, Baker helped to establish the location of the sources of the Nile

Florence Baker, wife of English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner Samuel White Baker, 1870
Florence Baker, wife of English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), 1870. Born in Hungary, Florence Baker accompanied her husband on his African expeditions

Benjamin Baker (1840-1907), British civil engineer, c1896
Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907), British civil engineer, c1896. His best-known projects include the Forth Railway Bridge and the first Aswan Dam across the Nile in Egypt

John Logie Baird (1888-1946), Scottish electrical engineer and pioneer of television, 1920s. Baird giving an early television ( Seeing by wireless ) demonstration

Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), French astronomer, writer and politician
Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) French astronomer, writer and politician. Bailly was a member of all the three great French academies, the Academie des Sciences

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), Scottish poet and dramatist, 1870

William Balfour Baikie (1825-1864), Scottish naturalist, explorer, naval surgeon and linguist, 1864. Baikie went on expeditions to explore the River Niger and the surrounding country in 1854 and 1857

Jean Antoine de Baif (1532-1589), French poet. He was a member of the Pleiade, a group of seven French poets devoted to reforming the French language and ennobling French literature

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941), British soldier, 1900. Baden-Powell offering reassurance that relief is on the way to the besieged town of Mafeking

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), Estonian-born German naturalist and embryologist. He discovered the mammalian ovum (egg) in 1827

Tower of Franciscan friary, Oxford, c1860
Tower of Franciscan friary, Oxford, 1788. The tower housed the study of Roger Bacon (c1214-1292), English experimental scientist, philosopher and Franciscan friar

Tower of Franciscan friary, Oxford, 1788. The tower, to the left of the bridge housed the study of Roger Bacon (c1214-1292), English experimental scientist, philosopher and Franciscan friar

Roger Bacon, English experimental scientist, philosopher and Franciscan friar. Bacon (c1214-1292) was known as Doctor Mirabilis due to his interest in magic and alchemy

Nicholas Bacon (1509-1579), English statesman, 1750. A staunch Protestant, Bacon fell out of favour during the reign of Mary I. Under Elizabeth I he was created Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1558)

Title page of Instauratio Magna, by Francis Bacon, 1620. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, scientist and statesman, became Lord Chancellor in 1618

Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, scientist and statesman, 1618. Bacon (1561-1626) became Lord Chancellor in 1618. He is shown here after his appointment to the position

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), American geophysicist, 1896. The great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Bache was appointed superintendent of the US Coast Survey in 1843

Johann Sebastian Bachs house, Leipzig, Germany, c1890. German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is considered by many to be the greatest composer in the history of western

Purana Puri, Hindu Philosopher, elevating his arms above his head, 1811. Such Hindu philosophers follow an ancient tradition, and were known to the Greeks as Gymnosophists

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