The English historian Grote (5 letters) was George Grote, a 19th century British historian who wrote a 12-volume History of Greece. He was also a political radical and philosopher. The English historian Clarendon (9 letters) was Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a 17th century historian and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1658 to 1667. He is best known for his History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England.