List of Famous Leos

Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, was an influential British Liberal and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented. Raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane in 1911, he was Lord Chancellor between 1912 and 1915, when he was forced to resign because of false allegations of German sympathies. He later joined the Labour Party and once again served as Lord Chancellor in 1924 in the first Labour administration. Apart from his legal and political careers, Haldane was also an influential writer on philosophy, in recognition of which he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1914.

Nicolas Henri Jeaurat de Bertry was a French painter who specialized in still-lifes. It is not clear how he acquired the name "De Bertry", although it was likely done to make him appear to be a member of the nobility.

Prince August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was a German prince of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line of the Ernestine Wettins and a patron of the arts during the Age of Enlightenment.