Here is a collection of notable people pictured in Dorset across the years.

We're going back hundreds of years to the times of the Duke of Gloucester - and returning to more recent times with a couple of Royal visits.

READ MORE: Dorset in the 1960s and 1970s part 8

We also have a little seen picture in this collection of Winston Churchill in Weymouth.

So scroll down to see these interesting pictures of notable folk in the county we call home.

Captain E R Murphy, late of the Dorset Regiment, pictured here reaching England after walking from one side of the African Continent to the other

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Colonel Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, pictured in Sherborne, circa 1910. A British diplomat, he was best known for his service in China and Japan

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First Lord of Admiralty Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill at Weymouth

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George Somers (1554-1610), virtual discoverer of the Bermudas, was born at or near Lyme Regis

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Prince Philip visiting The Regiment Of The Queen’s Royal Hussars at Bovington Camp in 1969

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Prince William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester - In 1780 the Duke built Gloucester Lodge at Weymouth

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Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their way through Weymouth to the Channel Islands in the 1940s Picture - Courtesy of Weymouth Museum

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Queen Elizabeth II signing the distinguished visitors book at Maumbury Rings in Dorchester

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Rev. Thomas Perkins, vicar of Turnworth, 1893-1907, a friend of Thomas Hardy

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The fifth Marquess of Anglesey who had an estate in Dorset

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Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839) - Vice Admiral - was the second son of Joseph Hardy of Portesham

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