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I don't know how close in this is, but Alexander Pope was an incredibly intelligent, lettered man who was also small and crooked, only reaching a height of four feet six inches. Of course, he was so as a result of having TB as a child, not a genetic quirk, but still. I think that's rather intriguing.

Dunno if this has already been covered, but there was a family that participated in the Wars of the Roses named "Tyrell," and it has always been a part of popular history that Sir James Tyrell was the one to suggest to Richard III that he murder his nephews in the tower. Can't remember what his coat of arms looked like, but I do know that he would have been a white rose.