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Famous People in the Sutherland Papers

The Sutherland family’s wealth and status brought them associations with prominent people in many different spheres, including authors, inventors, actors and politicians. Click on the names below (in alphabetical order) to find out more about some of these people in the Sutherland Papers.

Browse celebrities in the Sutherland Papers

Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) Architect

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)
Author of Peter Pan

James Brindley (1716-1772)
Civil Engineer

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Statesman and author

George Devey (1820-1886)
Architect

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1565-1601)
Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite courtier

L. P. Hartley (1895-1972)
Author of The Go-Between

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)
Artist (section includes links to see examples of his work)

William Huskisson (1770-1830)
Politician

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)
Campaigner for Reform

Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
Italian Patrion

William Gladstone (1809-1898)
Politician

Michael Johnson, father of Samuel Johnson (1657-1731)
The father of Dr Samuel Johnson, the author and critic born in Lichfield

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
Portrait artist

John Martin (1789-1854)
Read about this famous Victorian artist and the creation of one of his greatest works in the Sutherland Papers

Hiram Maxim (1840-1916)
The inventor of the machine gun was also an experimenter with powered flight

Mary Pickford (1893-1979)
Hollywood filmstar

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806)
Britain’s youngest ever Prime Minister

George Stephenson (1781-1848)
Railway Engineer

Charles Heathcote Tatham (1772-1842)
Artist and architect

Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
Civil Engineer

Ellen Terry (1847-1928)
Actress

James Trubshaw (1777-1853)
Builder and Engineer

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