Blackbeard (Edward Teach). -1718. English pirate in West Indies.

Blackmore, Richard. 1825-1900. English novelist: Lorna Doone 1869.

Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.

Blake, Robert. 1599-1657. English Commonwealth admiral.

Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.

Bligh, William. 1754-1817. English captain of Bounty. Discovered breadfruit.

Bliss, Arthur. 1891-1975. English subjective composer. Colour Symphony 1922.

Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.

Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.

Bolt, Robert. 1924-95. English dramatist. A Man for all Seasons 1960.

Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.

Bordeaux. 4C Rome. 412 Goths. 508 Clovis. 1154 English. 1453 France.

Bosanquet, Bernard. 1848-1923. English neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher. History of Aesthetic 1892.

Bouvines, Battle. 1214. French defeat English, HRE coalition. Recapture Angou...France a major power.

Bowdler, Thomas. 1754-1825. English publisher of expurgated Family Shakespeare 1818.

Boycott, Charles. 1832-97. English land agent boycotted in Ireland, 1879. Land League.

Boyle, Robert. 1627-91. English scientist. Gas law: given T, PV=k, 1662.

Bradley, F.H. 1846-1924. English Idealist philosopher. Appearances and Reality 1893.

Bradstreet, Anne. c1612-72. English/US poet.

Bragg, William. 1862-1942. English discoverer of crystallography by x-ray diffraction. with son Lawrence (1890-1971).

Bramah, Joseph. 1748-1814. English Invented combination lock 1784, hydraulic press, modern toilet.

Bransfield, Edward. 1795-1852. English. First to sight Antarctica, 1820.

Brearly, Harry. English. Stainless steel 1913.

Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.

Brindley, James. 1716-72. English engineer. Bridgewater Canal 1761.

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