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English novelist and dramatist

Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician

Uncle of poet Robert Burns

English schoolmaster, writer, minister and doctor of law

British musician

English dramatist and civil servant (1732–1811)

English divine and author

British poet

English farmer and writer on agriculture

English poet and playwright

Scottish philosopher and historian

British divine

British author and engraver

English classical scholar and biblical critic

English Baptist minister and author

English cleric and poet

British man known for writing The History of Pennsylvania

English Methodist and hymn writer

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

English writer

Scottish playwright and Presbyterian minister

Scottish classical scholar and historian

Scottish author

Irish/English writer

Scottish minister and historian

English Quaker poet and writer

Talian-born English literary critic and author

British Unitarian minister and biographical writer

British physician, naturalist and writer

British merchant

British writer

Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian

English author, poet, and Anglican vicar

Welsh poet, antiquarian, collector and literary forger

British philosopher

English writer on agriculture, economics, and social statistics

Poet

English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter

Scottish master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist

Scottish lawyer and writer