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medical men, who are not, however, considered by their biographers 

 to have really attained a durable reputation. Just as a really able 

 business man is not satisfied with business success, so a really able doctor 

 is not satisfied with professional success, but seeks a higher success, 

 especially in science. A number of eminent men in science, letters and 

 philosophy have been doctors, but it has not been in medical practice 

 that their reputations have been made. I have no comments to make 

 on the other groups, which, in all cases, I believe, fairly correspond 

 to the real distribution of high ability. The group of Divines may 

 seem large, but it certainly appears that religion has offered, in the 

 past, if not in the present, a peculiarly favorable field for the develop- 

 ment of mental ability. 



There are 43 eminent women, the proportion to eminent men being 

 only about 1 to 20, although, as I have already pointed out, a somewhat 

 lower standard of intellectual ability seems here to be demanded in 

 order to attain eminence. The eminent women fall into the following 

 groups: Actresses, 13; Women of Letters, 23; Women of Science, 1; 

 Philanthropists, 1; Poets, 5. It will be noticed that women have only 

 attained eminence in five out of the eighteen departments, although, 

 even allowing for legal and other disabilities, they have been free to 

 attain eminence in at least twelve departments. 



Having now explained how these lists have been obtained, it may 

 be well at this stage to enumerate the individuals who thus appear 

 entitled to rank as the preeminent men and women of genius produced 

 by the British Isles. Names appearing in more than one group are 

 marked by an asterisk. It has not been thought necessary to distinguish 

 the very numerous cases in which individuals of the same name appear 

 in different groups, since no confusion should thus be caused. 



Actors. — Betterton, Booth, Burbage, Cibber, Cooke, Elliston, Foote, Garrick, 

 Kean, Kemble, King, Lewis, Liston, Macklin, Macready, C. Mathews, C. J. 

 Mathews, Palmer, Phelps, Quin, Webster, Wilks, Woodward. 



Artists. — Adam, Banks, C. Barry, J. Barry, Bewick, Blake,* Bonington, 

 Browne, Cattermole, Chantrey, Cockerell, Constable, Cooper, Copley, Cotman, 

 Cox, Cozens, Crome, Cruikshank, Danby, Dawson, Dobson, Doyle, Dyce, Eastlake, 

 Etty, Flaxman, Gainsborough, Gibson, Girtin, Gillray, Haydon, Hogarth, Holl, 

 Inigo Jones, Keene, Landseer, Lawrence, Lewis, Linnell, Leech, Maelise, Mbrland, 

 Mulready, Northcote, Opie, Phillip, Pugin, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney, Rossetti,* 

 Rowlandson, Sandby, D. Scott, G. Scott, Stevens, Stothard, Street, Stubbs, Turner, 

 Vanbrugh,* Varley, Walker, Wilkie, Wilson, Woolner, Wren, Wright. 



Business Men. — Gresham, Paterson, Whittington. 



Divines. — Abbot, Adrian IV., Ainsworth, Alesius, Allen, Andrewes,* Atter- 

 bury, Bancroft, Barclay, Barrow,* Baxter, Bedell, St. Boniface, Bonner, Bradshaw, 

 Browne, Burges, Burnet,* Butler,* Campion, Candlish, St. Thomas de Cantelupe, Cart- 

 wright, Challoner, Chalmers, Chichele, Chillingworth, Clarke, Colenso, St. Colum- 

 ba, St. Columban, Cooke, Cosin, Coverdale, Cranmer, Cudworth, St. Cuthbert, Dol- 

 ben, Doddridge, Donne,* Duff, St. Dunstan, St. Edmund, Emlyn, Erskine, Faber, 

 I'errar, Fox, Foxe,* Fuller, Garnett, Henderson,* Heylin, Hoadley, Hook, Hooker, 



