| HILLIARD | Limner and goldsmith at the court of Elizabeth I and later James I who painted the Phoenix and the Pelican portraits and the Young Man Among Roses miniature (8) |
| GILBERT | Physician to Elizabeth I and later James I who published his findings on terrestrial magnetism in the six-volume treatise De Magnete (7) |
| NESBIT | Novelist who wrote The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children (6) |
| ENESBIT | British writer whose children's books include The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children |
| ESSEX | Earl in the court of Elizabeth I |
| IMELDASTAUNTON | Actress whose films include Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Vera Drake (6,8) |
| HARVEY | Physician to James I and later Charles I who was the first to correctly describe the blood's circulation (6) |
| GERARD | Trained at the studio of Jacques- Louis David, portraitist and court painter to Napoleon I and later Louis XVIII and Charles X (6) |
| RUFFS | Frills. usually starched. worn round the neck. particularly during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I (5) |
| RAPHAEL | Raised at the court of Urbino, painter of The Madonna of the Pinks who was the third in a trio of revered Italian High Renaissance masters after Leonardo and Michelangelo (7) |
| BACON | Francis -; statesman and philosopher during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I (5) |
| PELICANS | Birds with the largest bills of all avians; symbols of Elizabeth I and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (8) |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road and at the court of Kublai Khan are described in Il Milione (The Million), or Book of the Marvels of the World (4) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| DUNBAR | Which Scottish poet at the court of James IV wrote the political allegory The Thistle and the Rose ( |
| NEHEMIAH | A book of the Old Testament recounting the acts of a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes, King of Persia (8) |
| BENDA | Bohemian composer and virtuoso violinist who worked for much of his life at the court of the flautist future Frederick the Great (5) |
| EDDY | - the Fair; modernisation of the name of the eldest son of Edmund I who was approximately 15 years o |
| WYATT | Bom at Allington Castle, poet and ambassador at the court of Henry VIII who wrote the first English sonnets (5) |
| CELLINI | Florentine sculptor and goldsmith noted for his autobiography La Vita and pieces including a salt cellar for Francis I and a bronze statue of Perseus (7) |
