179 people found
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John Milton
English epic poet
John Locke
English philosopher and physician
Samuel Pepys
English naval administrator and member of parliament
Ralph Cudworth
English philosopher
Isaac Newton
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
English politician
Edmund Waller
English poet and politician
Thomas Tomkinson
English writer
William Petty
English economist, scientist and philosopher.
Algernon Sidney
British politician and political theorist
William Prynne
English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure
Richard Cumberland (philosopher)
English philosopher, and Bishop of Peterborough (1631–1718)
Jeremy Taylor
English clergyman
Andrew Marvell
English poet and politician
Charles Cotton
English poet and angler
John Saltmarsh
English theologian
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
English statesman and poet
Thomas Browne
English polymath
John Hall
English poet, born 1627
John Dryden
English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
John Bunyan
English Christian writer and preacher
William Winstanley
English poet
John Aubrey
English writer and antiquarian
William Wycherley
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
English politician
John Suckling (poet)
English poet
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
English poet, and peer of the realm
Richard Baxter
English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
English poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period
Thomas Ellwood
English poet and Quaker theologian
Thomas Killigrew
English dramatist and theatre manager
Roger L'Estrange
English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
English writer, politician, and commander in the Parliamentary army
Samuel Fisher
English Quaker controversialist
John Mason (poet)
British poet and songwriter
George Etherege
English writer
Sidney Godolphin
English poet, courtier and politician
Edward Browne
British physician
Robert Murray
English financier, writer on commerce and Whig conspirator
Thomas Burnet
English theologian and writer