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A 1779 oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds of the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Private Collection)

A portrait of Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester (1602-1671). Manchester commanded one of the main armies of the Parliamentarians during the English Civil Wars (1642-51) until he was discredited for his performance in the indecisive Second...

Portrait of British Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), oil on canvas by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1753. National Portrait Gallery, London.

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the notorious English pirate Edward Low who was active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic from 1721 to 1724 during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). Low was known for his acts of cruelty on...

A photograph of Edward Elgar (1857-1934) at his desk in 1931. Taken by Herbert Lambert. (National Portrait Gallery)

Edward Gibbon, oil on mahogany panel by Henry Walton, 1773. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Timothy Ines as Edward the Elder in the TV series The Last Kingdom, image by Netlfix, accessed through IMdb, 2015.

A 1905 photograph of the English composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934).

A photograph of British Royal Flying Corps fighter pilot Major Edward Mannock (1887-1918) who managed 73 victories and was Britain’s top flying ace during the First World War (1914-18). Mannock was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross...

A photograph of Edward J. Smith, captain of RMS Titanic which sank on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic.