Sackville, Thomas. 1536-1608. British dramatist. First English blank-verse tragedy. Gorboduc 1561.

Sandys, Edwin. 1561-1629. English parliamentarian. His ideas helped overthrow Charles I.

Sark. 1040 Norman. 1066 English fief. 1565 colonized. 1940-45 Germans occupy.

Sayers, Dorothy. 1893-1957. English mystery writer. Lord Peter Wimsey.

Scott, George. 1811-78. English Gothic Revival architect: Oxford Martyrs’ Memorial 1841. Albert Memorial 1863-72.

Scott, Robert. 1868-1912. English Antarctic explorer. Died returning from the South Pole.

Scriblerus Club. 18C English literary club. Satirized contemporary writing. Swift. Pope.

Shaftesbury, 7th earl. 1801-85. English reform politician. Coal Mines Act 1842. Factory Acts. Sponsored schools, housing for poor.

Shakers. 1747-. English celibate communal Quaker sect. 1774 moved to US.

Shakespeare, William. 1564-1616. English dramatic poet. Master of language, characters, perception.Titus Andronicus c1593. Romeo and Juliet c1594. Hamlet c1602. Othello c1604. King Lear c1606. Lover’s Complaint c1609. Sonnets 1609. Tempest 1611.

Shelburne, 2nd earl. 1737-1805. English statesman. Prime Minister 1782-3. Treaty of Paris.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1787-1851. English writer. (Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Married Percy Shelley. Frankenstein 1818.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1792-1822. English lyric poet. Advocated freedom of thought. Prometheus Unbound 1820.

Sheraton, Thomas. 1751-1806. English Regency furniture designer.

Shrewsbury, Duke of. 1660-1718. English. Influenced Glorious Revolution, Hanoverian succession.

Sickert, Walter. 1860-1942. German/English Impressionist painter.

Sidney, Philip. 1554-86. English poet. Arcadia 1580. Defence of Poesie 1585.

Sillitoe, Alan. 1928-. English writer of working class life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1959.

Simnel, Lambert. c1475-1535 Pretender to English throne 1487.

Sisley, Alfred. 1839-99. English/French Impressionist painter. Meadows in Spring.

Sitwell, Edith. 1887-1964. English poet. Still Falls the Rain.

Skelton, John. c1460-1529. English satirical poet. Tutor, adviser to Henry VIII.

Slater, Samuel. 1768-1835. English/US. First American textile factory. Duplicated Arkwright spinning machines 1793.

Sluis, Battle. 1340. French fleet destroyed by English.

Smith, John. c1580-1631. English adventurer saved by Pocahontas. Founded Jamestown.

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