246 people found
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Colley Cibber
British poet laureate
Samuel Richardson
English writer and printer
James Gibbs
English physician and poet
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist
John Vanbrugh
English architect and dramatist
Alexander Pope
English poet
Henry Purcell
English composer
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
English politician and Earl
Henry Carey
English composer and playwright
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British statesman and man of letters
Samuel Wesley
Clergyman of the Church of England, poet and writer
Joseph Pitts (author)
Englishman enslaved by Barbary pirates
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
English politician and Viscount
Thomas Moore
English playwright
John Lewis
English cleric and antiquarian, born 1675
Matthew Henry
Theologian from Wales
Nicholas Rowe
English poet, writer
Edward Young
English poet
John Dennis
British dramatist
John Jackson
English clergyman, born 1686
Robert Nelson
English philanthropist and religious writer
Robert Nelson
English philanthropist and religious writer
Richard Blackmore
English poet and physician
John Gay
English poet and playwright
Iain MacCodrum
MacCodrum, Iain [John] , Scottish Gaelic poet
Nicholas Trott
British-American judge, legal scholar and writer
Francis Hare
English churchman and classical scholar
John Stevens
English captain, Hispanist and translator
Basil Kennett
English churchman and academic, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and antiquarian
John Kettlewell
English priest
Mark Catesby
English naturalist, painter and etcher
Matthew Prior
British diplomat, poet
Richard Savage (poet)
English poet
John Shirley
English medical author
Peter Anthony Motteux
English writer
Arthur Maynwaring
English politician and author
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
British admiral
John Hughes
English poet, essayist, and translator
Temple Stanyan
British writer, historian