Jones, Inigo. 1573-1652. English architect who introduced Palladian style. Greenwich House 1616. Whitehall Banquet Hall 1619.

Jonson, Ben. 1572-1637. English poet, dramatist: Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes. Every Man in his Humour 1601. Alchemist 1610. 1598 escaped gallows by Benefit of Clergy.

Joule, James. 1818-89. English physicist. Mechanics of energy. Law of Conservation of Energy. Energy unit, 1843.

Jowett, Benjamin. 1817-93. English scholar. Translated Dialogues of Plato 1871.

Kean, Edmund. 1789-1833. English Shakespearean actor.

Keats, John. 1795-1821. English Romantic sensuous lyric poet: Odes 1819, Isabella.

Keble, John. 1792-1866. English poet/clergyman. National Apostacy 1833 sermon started Oxford Movement.

Key, Francis Scott. 1779-1843. US lawyer/poet. Star Spangled Banner 1814 based on music from English drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven. US National anthem 1931-.

Kilkenny Statute. 1367. Banned English-Irish marriage, use of Irish names by English. Established Pale.

Kingsley, Charles. 1819-75. English didactic social novelist/clergyman. Alton Locke 1850. Water Babies 1863. Founded Christian Socialism.

Kipling, Rudyard. 1865-1936. English/Indian writer. Compelling, emotional, poetic. Jungle Book 1894. Kim 1901. Imperialist:- “White Man’s Burden”.

Krebs, Hans. 1900-81. German/English biochemist. Citric acid cycle of human energy, 1937.

Kyd, Thomas. 1558-94. English playwright. First ‘revenge’ play: The Spanish Tragedy 1592.

Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.

Lamb, Charles. 1775-1834. English poet and essayist. Essays of Elia 1820-33.

Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of. c1277-1322. English. Led barons vs Edward II. Beheaded.

Langland, William. 1330-1400. English Christian allegorical poet. Piers Ploughman 1362.

Langtry, Lily. 1853-1929. English beauty/actress. Favourite of Edward VII as Prince of Wales.

Latimer, Hugh. 1485-1555. English Protestant Reformation churchman. Executed by Mary I.

Law Commission Act. 1965. First codification of English common law.

Lawrence, D.H. 1885-1930. Censored English psychological novelist exploring consciousness and morality. Sons and Lovers 1913. Women in Love 1926. Lady Chatterly’s Lover 1928. Modernism.

Lawrence, Thomas. 1769-1830. English portrait artist.

Lawrence, Thomas (of Arabia). 1888-1935. English writer, officer. Led Arabs against Turks, 1914-18: Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1926.

Layamon. c1200. English poet. First mention of King Arthur, Lear, Merlin.

Lee, Anne. 1736-84. English/US mystic Shaker leader.

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