1806-1872 - Savile Row (Mayfair)
Collections & Egyptology & Medicine & Periodicals & Politics & Italy & place: Milan
Physician Augustus Bozzi Granville was born Agostino Bozzi in Milan on 7 October 1783 (Granville was the name of his Cornish grandfather on his
1762-1808 - Bedford Row (Holborn)
Jews & Politics & Italy & place: Verona
Merchant and community leader Naphtali [Nathan] Basevi was born in Verona in 1738 into a Sephardi Jewish family. He moved to London in 1762 where he
1897-1929 - Strand (Covent Garden)
Clubs & Collections & Food & Politics & Swiss & place: Dongio
Restaurateur, theatre owner, and Conservative politician John Maria Gatti was born Giovanni Maria Emilio Gatti on 13 August 1872 in Dongio, in the
1736-1739 - St James’s Square (Westminster)
Literature & Politics & Sex & Italy & place: Venice
Scientist, poet, diplomat, philosopher, art collector, and opera lover Francesco Algarotti was born in Venice on 11 December 1712, the son of a rich
1716-1728 - Little Stanmore (Middlesex)
Academies & Music & Politics & Royalty & Italy & place: Bologna
Baroque composer Attilio Malachia Ariosti was born on 5 November 1666 in Bologna. He became a Servite friar in 1688, but left the order to become a
1715-1729 - Suffolk Street (Soho)
Music & Politics & Italy & place: Modena
Little is known about the life of Giuseppe Riva apart from a series of letters that have survived. He served as the Modenese diplomatic
1693-onwards - St James’s Street (Westminster)
Clubs & Coffee Houses & Gambling & Politics & Italy
White’s at no. 37 St James’s Street is London’s oldest and most exclusive gentleman’s club which was established in 1693 at no. 4 Chesterfield
1733-1869 - Leicester Square (Westminster)
Hotels & Politics & Sculpture & Italy
William Hogarth’s success as an artist enabled him to purchase the Golden Head, a house at the south-eastern corner of Leicester Square where he
1934-1939 - Not traced
Periodicals & Politics & Printing & Swiss & place: Weggis
Marxist avant-garde publisher and writer Wieland Herzfelde [Herzfeld] was born on 11 April 1896 in Weggis in the canton of Lucerne into a family of
1658-1909 - Sardinia Street (Westminster)
Church History & Politics
The recusant Weld dynasty descends from Humphrey Weld, a merchant and Lord Mayor of London. Weld’s grandson, also named Humphrey, acquired a piece
1609-1649 - Not traced
Historians & Literature & Politics & Diplomacy & Spies & Italy & place: Lesina
Author and historian Giovanni Francesco Bondi was born in 1572 at Lesina, an island (now part of Croatia) in the Adriatic Sea. From 1606 to 1609 he
1490-1681 - Richmond Palace (Richmond)
Linguistics & Politics & Royalty & Italy & Place: Rome
The role of Latin Secretary to the King was established under Henry VII. Since Latin was the language of European diplomatic and scholarly
1580-1600 - Bishopsgate Street (City of London)
Politics & Royalty & Trade & Italy & place: Genoa
Merchant and diplomat Horatio Palavicino was born about 1540 in Genoa where his family had made a fortune in handling the papal monopoly of alum, an
1711-1753 - Not traced
Banking & Collections & Music & Politics & Italy & place: Florence
Merchant, diplomat, and amateur harpsichordist Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni was born on 26 July 1683 in Florence. He began his career in as a merchant
1631-1675 - St Paul’s (Covent Garden)
Huguenots & Medicine & Politics & Royalty & Swiss & place: Geneva
Physician Jean [John] Colladon was born on 19 March 1608 in Geneva. His father Esaïe Colladon was Professor of Philosophy at the Geneva Academy; his