Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")

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• Darwin, Charles Robert

  (1809-1882) Naturalist, s. of a physician, and grandson of Dr. Erasmus D. (q.v.), and of Josiah Wed...

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• Dibdin, Charles

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• Dickens, Charles

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• Gildon, Charles

  (1665-1724) Critic and dramatist, belonged to a Roman Catholic family, and was an unsuccessful play...

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• Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke

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• Johnstone, Charles

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• Kingsley, Charles

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• Knight, Charles

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• Lamb, Charles

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• MacKay, Charles

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• Macklin, Charles

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• Merivale, Charles

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• Neaves, Charles, Lord

  (1800-1876) Miscellaneous author, b. and ed. in Edinburgh, was called to the Bar, and became a judg...

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• Sprague, Charles

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• Hoffman, Charles Fenno

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• Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury

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• Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth

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