(1801-72) a US politician in the REPUBLICAN PARTY who was SECRETARY OF STATE from 1861 to 1869. He helped to arrange the deal in which the US bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. At the time, many people thought Alaska was a bad piece of land to buy, and they called it 'Seward's Folly'.
(1800-1877) a British photographer who was the first to invent a way of making more than one photograph from the same NEGATIVE (= image on a piece of film that shows dark areas as light and light areas as dark)
1879-1963born in India british economist whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based