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.

Smithson, James. 1765-1829. English scientist. Left fortune to found Smithsonian Institution.

Snow, C.D. 1905-80. English writer. Strangers and Brothers series.

Soane, John. 1753-1837. English Neoclassical architect, collector. Bank of England 1792-1833.

Soddy, Frederick. 1877-1956. English chemist. Isotope theory.

Somerset. 2nd duke. c1406-1455. English general. Lost English territory in France. Quarrel with Duke of York led to War of Roses.

Sovereign. 1503-1917. English coin worth 22s6d, later 10s, 11s, £1.

Spanish Armada. 1588. English support Dutch Revolt. Philip II sends 129 ships against England. Howard, Drake, Hawkins, with 197 ships, chase the armada from English Channel, thanks to a NW gale. Spain declines as naval power. Wars of Religion.

Spanish Marriages, Affair of. 1846. Isabella’s sister, heir marries French prince, despite Spanish assurances, causing English/French rift.

Spencer, Herbert. 1820-1903. English evolutionist philosopher. “Survival of the fittest.” Associationism. Anti-socialism, “Best government is the least government.” The Synthetic Philosophy 1860-96. Liberal Utilitarianism.

Spenser, Edmund. 1552-99. English poet: Faerie Queen 1590. “The poet’s poet”.

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