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People Born Overseas and Not in the British Isles

Some people are British because they have British parents and just happen to be born overseas, such as Florence Nightingale, or they become naturalised.

Please click on the names below that you are interested in finding more information about.

Ford Maddox BrownFlorence Nightingale
Charles Edward Stewart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)George Orwell
T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns)William Makepeace Thackeray
Rudyard KiplingJ. R .R.Tolkien
William Somerset Maugham