Plantagenet. 1154-1485. English dynasty. Lancaster, York. Angevins. Geoffrey.

Plimsoll, Samuel. 1824-98. English reformer. Defined ship loading mark.

Pope, Alexander. 1688-1744. English satirist, poet and philosopher: On Criticism 1711. Rape of the Lock 1712-4. Essay on Man 1732-4.

Portland, William Bentrick, Duke of. 1649-1709. Dutch/English statesman. Boyne. Treaty of Rijswijk.

Potter, Beatrix. 1866-1943. English children’s story writer. Peter Rabbit 1900.

Powys, John. 1872-1963. English writer: Wolf Solent 1929.

Poynings Laws. 1494. Irish Parliament Acts put English Laws in effect.

Preston, Battle. 1648. Cromwell defeats Charles I last forces in English Civil War.

Priestley, Joseph. 1733-1804. English chemist: isolated Oxygen 1774, 9 other gasses.

Prior, Matthew. 1664-1721. English epigrammist/poet: City Mouse and the Country Mouse.

Privy Council. English monarch’s principal advisers. Little power since 17C.

Protectorate. 1653-9. English government after Civil War by Instrument of Government. Cromwell.

Protestant Succession. 1701. English Act of Settlement.

Puck. Medieval English mischievous fairy.

Purcell, Henry. 1658-1695. English chorale composer. First English opera. Dido and Aeneas 1689. King Arthur 1691. Fairy Queen 1692.

Puritanism. 16-17C. English Calvinist movement to purify church of Catholic and political elements. Valued hard work, education, thrift.

Pusey, Edward. 1800-82. English. Led Oxford Movement.

Pym, John. 1583-1643. English Puritan. Led Long Parliament. Civil War.

Quant, Mary. 1934-. English fashion designer. Miniskirt.

Queen Anne’s War. 1702-13. French vs English in North America in War of Spanish Succession.

Quiller-Couch (Q). 1863-1944. English editor of Oxford Book of English Verse 1900,39.

Radcliffe, Ann. 1764-1823. English Gothic novelist. Mysteries of Udolpho 1794.

Raffles, Thomas. 1781-1826. English founder of Singapore 1819.

Raikes, Robert. 1736-1811. English Sunday School pioneer.

Raleigh, Walter. 1554-1618. English colonist in Virginia. Introduced tobacco, potato to Europe. Beheaded.

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