Van wie was Mary Robinson (poet)?

Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757 – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and celebrity figure. She lived in England, in the cities of Bristol and London; she also lived in France and Germany for a time. She enjoyed poetry from the age of seven and started working, first as a teacher and then as an actress, from the age of 14. She wrote many plays, poems and novels. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She earned her nickname "Perdita" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) in 1779, and was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales.

George IV August Frederik van Hannover (Engels: George Augustus Frederick; St. James's Palace, 12 augustus 1762 – Windsor Castle, 26 juni 1830) was koning van het Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Ierland en koning van Hannover van 1820 tot 1830. Hij was prins regent voor zijn vader van 1811 tot diens dood in 1820 en stond vooral bekend om de overwinning van het Verenigd Koninkrijk in de napoleontische oorlogen.

George was een koppige monarch, die zich vaak bemoeide met de politiek, vooral op het gebied van de katholieke emancipatie, maar niet zoveel als zijn vader. Zowel tijdens zijn regentschap als tijdens zijn koningschap was het vooral Robert Jenkinson, de tweede graaf van Liverpool, die de regering beheerste als minister-president. Andere ministers-presidenten onder George IV waren George Canning in 1827, Frederick John Robinson de graaf van Ripon, van 1827 tot 1828 en Arthur Wellesley de hertog van Wellington, van 1828 tot 1830.

Koning George IV staat vandaag de dag vooral bekend om zijn extravagante levensstijl in de periode toen hij Prince of Wales, prins-regent en koning was. In 1797 was zijn gewicht al rond de 111 kilogram. Hij had een zeer slechte relatie met zijn vader, George III, en ook met zijn tweede echtgenote Caroline van Brunswijk. Hij verbood haar zelfs om bij zijn kroning aanwezig te zijn. George IV liet door John Nash het Royal Pavilion in Brighton bouwen en liet Buckingham House verbouwen en herinrichten en hij liet door Jeffry Wyattville Windsor Castle verbouwen. Hij was zeer betrokken bij de oprichting van de National Gallery in Londen en King's College in Londen.

George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex FSA (13 November 1757 – 23 April 1839) was an English aristocrat and politician, and styled Viscount Malden until 1799. His surname was Capell until 1781.

Banastre Tarleton (Liverpool, 21 augustus 1754 - Leintwardine, 15 januari 1833) was een Brits militair en politicus.

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was an English Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder").

Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though at that time with rather conservative and conventional opinions. However, with the coming of the American War of Independence and the influence of the Whig Edmund Burke, Fox's opinions evolved into some of the most radical to be aired in the British Parliament of his era.

Fox became a prominent and staunch opponent of King George III, whom he regarded as an aspiring tyrant. He supported the American Patriots and even dressed in the colours of George Washington's army. Briefly serving as Britain's first Foreign Secretary during the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782, he returned to the post in a coalition government with his old enemy, Lord North, in 1783. However, the King forced Fox and North out of government before the end of the year and replaced them with the 24-year-old Pitt the Younger. Fox spent the following 22 years facing Pitt and the government from the opposition benches of the House of Commons.

Though Fox had little interest in the actual exercise of power and spent almost the entirety of his political career in opposition, he became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty. His friendship with his mentor, Burke, and his parliamentary credibility were both casualties of Fox's support for France during the French Revolutionary Wars, but Fox went on to attack Pitt's wartime legislation and to defend the liberty of religious minorities and political radicals. After Pitt's death in January 1806, Fox served briefly as Foreign Secretary in the 'Ministry of All the Talents' of William Grenville before he died on 13 September 1806, aged 57.