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Businesses (3)
- Cadell & Davies, publishers and booksellers London
- Chiswick Press, publishers London
- Robert Henderson, merchant, Glasgow Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Organisations (51)
- British and Foreign Unitarian Association
- British Apprentice Club, New York New York, New York
- HMS Achilles (1863)
- HMS Aigle (1801)
- HMS Apollo (1774)
- HMS Ariadne (1776)
- HMS Astraea (1781)
- HMS Aurora (1887)
- HMS Blenheim (1890)
- HMS Boyne (1790)
- HMS Camperdown (1885)
- HMS Centaur (1797)
- HMS Confiance (1805)
- HMS Curlew (1830)
- HMS Dee (1832)
- HMS Dryad (1795)
- HMS Espiegle (1812)
- HMS Falcon (1820)
- HMS Firebrand (1842)
- HMS Formidable (1825), industrial training ship Bristol, Gloucestershire
- HMS Forth (1813)
- HMS Frolic (1842)
- HMS Ganymede (1809)
- HMS Grafton (1892)
- HMS Griffon (1808)
- HMS Indefatigable (1804)
- HMS Isis (1774)
- HMS Liverpool (1860)
- HMS Lowestoffe (1761)
- HMS Mars (1848) Woodhaven, Fife;Dundee, Angus
- HMS Menai (1814)
- HMS Narcissus (1801)
- HMS Niemen (1809)
- HMS Orlando (1886)
- HMS Pluto (1831)
- HMS Powerful (1895)
- HMS Princess Royal (1682)
- HMS Rattlesnake (1822)
- HMS Royal Sovereign (1637)
- HMS Salvadore del Mundo (1797)
- HMS Sceptre (1802)
- HMS Southampton (1757)
- HMS Success (1781)
- HMS Temeraire (1759)
- HMS Temeraire (1798)
- HMS Terrible (1895)
- HMS Thracian (1809)
- HMS Tiber (1813)
- HMS Victorious (1895)
- HMS Wanderer (1883)
- International Woman Suffrage Alliance London
Persons (159)
- Arnold, Sir Edwin, (1832-1904), Knight, poet and journalist
- Astor, William Waldorf, (1848-1919), 1st Viscount Astor, newspaper proprietor
- Auden, Wystan Hugh, (1907-1973), poet York, Yorkshire
- Balderston, John Lloyd, (1889-1954), playwright
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, (1834-1924), rector of Lew Trenchard, antiquary, folklorist and hymn writer
- Barker, George Granville, (1913-1991), poet
- Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian, (1872-1956), Knight, author and cartoonist
- Bell, Vanessa, (1879-1961), artist London
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene, (1870-1953), poet and author
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold, (1867-1931), novelist playwright and journalist
- Benson, Stella, (1892-1933), novelist, feminist, writer
- Bond, Frederick Bligh, (1864-1945), Ecclesiastical architect, archaeologist, antiquary
- Borrow, George Henry, (1803-1881), writer and traveller
- Boucicault, Dion, (1820-1890), playwright and actor
- Bowes, Sir Robert, (? 1535-1597), Knight, MP, diplomat
- Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), poet
- Burgess, Henry, (1781-1863), Banker and Journalist
- Carleton, Dudley, (1573-1632), Viscount Dorchester, diplomat
- Carteret, John, (1690-1763), 1st Earl Granville
- Casement, Sir Roger David, (1864-1916), Knight Diplomat and Irish Nationalist
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, (1859-1947), American women's suffrage activist
- Cecil, Sir Robert, (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury and 1st Viscount Cranborne, statesman
- Chalmers, George, (1742-1825), antiquary and public servant
- Champion, Richard, (1743-1791), Merchant and Politician
- Charles I, (1600-1649), King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, (1874-1965), Knight, prime minister and historian
- Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer, (1899-1980), literary historian
- Colden, Cadwallader, (1688-1776), botanist and American loyalist
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Cornford, Frances Crofts, (1886-1960), poet
- Craggs, James, (1686-1721), Secretary of State
- Craig, Edward Henry Gordon, (1872-1966), English modernist theatre practitioner
- Creighton, James, (fl 1813-1819), Captain RN
- Cross, Mary Ann, (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Dalrymple, John, (1673-1747), 2nd Earl of Stair, General
- D'Arblay, Frances, (1752-1840), novelist
- Delavall, Sir Ralph, (d 1707), Knight, Admiral
- Digby, Sir Kenelm, (1603-1665), Knight Author Naval Commander and Diplomat
- Douglas, Lord Alfred Bruce, (1870-1945), poet
- Edmondes, Sir Thomas, (c1563-1639), Knight, diplomat, MP
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns, (1888-1965), poet
- Elizabeth I, (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland
- Firbank, Arthur Annesley Ronald, (1886-1926), Author and Playwright
- Ford, Ford Madox, (1873-1939), author and critic
- Forster, Edward Morgan, (1879-1970), novelist and critic
- Frewen, Moreton, (1853-1924), MP monetary reformer
- Fulton, Robert, (1765-1815), Civil Engineer Inventor and Artist
- Gardiner, Margaret, (1904-2005), writer and patron of the arts
- Garnett, Angelica Vanessa, (1918-2012), artist and author East Sussex
- George I, (1660-1727), King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Elector of Hanover
- Gissing, George Robert, (1857-1903), novelist
- Goldman, Emma, (1869-1940), anarchist, political activist and writer
- Graves, Robert Ranke, (1895-1985), poet and author
- Greet, Sir Philip Ben, (1857-1936), Knight, actor manager
- Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta, (1852-1932), playwright and poet Roxborough, County Limerick
- Haden, Sir Francis Seymour, (1818-1910), Knight Etcher and Surgeon
- Hamilton-Gordon, Arthur Charles, (1829-1912), 1st Baron Stanmore, colonial governor
- Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Hare, Julius Charles, (1795-1855), author and Church of England clergyman
- Harnage, Sir George, (1792-1866), 2nd Baronet Naval Commander
- Harris, Frank, (1856-1931), author, journalist and adventurer
- Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, (1792-1862), friend and biographer of Shelley
- Hood, Thomas, (1799-1845), Poet
- Hoste, Sir William Legge George, (1818-1868), 2nd Baronet Rear Admiral
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh, (1784-1859), essayist and poet
- Hutchinson, Thomas, (1711-1780), Governor of Massachusetts Bay
- Huxley, Aldous Leonard, (1894-1963), novelist and critic Surrey
- Hyde, Douglas, (1860-1949), President of Ireland
- Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw, (1904-1986), writer Cheshire
- James, Cyril Lionel Robert, (1901-1989), activist, writer and historian Trinidad;Brixton, Surrey
- James, Henry, (1843-1916), novelist
- John, Gwendolen Mary, (1876-1939), painter Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire;Paris, France;London;Dieppe, France
- Johnson, Joseph, (1738-1809), Bookseller and Printer
- Johnson, Samuel, (1709-1784), lexicographer, essayist, literary biographer
- Johnston, Sir Alexander, (1775-1849), Knight, colonial administrator
- Joyce, James Augustine, (1882-1941), poet, novelist and playwright
- Keats, John, (1795-1821), poet
- Kingsley, Charles, (1819-1875), Canon of Westminster author
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Lamb, Charles, (1775-1834), essayist and humorist
- Langtry, Lily, (1852-1929), Actress
- Lawrence, David Herbert, (1885-1930), poet, novelist and essayist Australia;France;United States of America;Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
- Leslie, Alexander, (1731-1794), Lieutenant General
- Macartney, George, (1737-1806), Earl Macartney
- Mackay, Mary, (1855-1924), novelist
- Mare, Walter John de la, (1873-1956), author and poet
- Marsh, Sir Edward Howard, (1872-1953), Knight, public servant and patron of the arts
- Masefield, John Edward, (1878-1967), poet
- Meredith, George, (1828-1909), novelist and poet
- Mitchison, Naomi Margaret, (1897-1999), Baroness Mitchison, writer and social activist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Moore, George Augustus, (1852-1933), Author
- O'Casey, Sean, (1880-1964), playwright and writer
- Parker, Sir Hyde, (1739-1807), Knight, Admiral
- Parker, Sir William, (1781-1866), 1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet
- Pater, Walter Horatio, (1839-1894), critic and humanist
- Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon, (1854-1932), Knight, Irish statesman
- Pope, Alexander, (1688-1744), poet
- Pound, Ezra Loomis, (1885-1972), poet
- Reade, Charles, (1814-1884), novelist and dramatist
- Richardson, Dorothy, (1873-1957), novelist
- Robertson, Archibald, (? 1745-1813), Lieutenant General
- Robeson, Paul Leroy, (1898-1976), singer, actor and American civil rights activist Princeton, New Jersey;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;London
- Robinson, Sir Robert Spencer, (1809-1889), Knight Admiral
- Rodd, Thomas, (1796-1849), Bookseller
- Rodney, George Brydges, (1719-1792), 1st Baron Stoke-Rodney, Admiral
- Rolfe, Frederick William, (1860-1913), author as Baron Corvo
- Rolleston, Thomas William, (1857-1920), Irish Writer
- Ross, Sir John, (1777-1856), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, George William, (1867-1935), poet painter economist and journalist
- Sackville-West, Victoria Mary, (1892-1962), poet, novelist and biographer
- Saint John, Henry, (1678-1751), 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman
- Sawyer, Sir Herbert, (d 1833), Admiral
- Schaub, Sir Luke, (d 1758), Knight, diplomat
- Scott, Clement William, (1841-1904), dramatic critic
- Scott, Sir Walter, (1771-1832), 1st Baronet, poet and novelist
- Seymour, Sir Edward Hobart, (1840-1929), Knight Admiral of the Fleet
- Shaw, George Bernard, (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Sheeres, Sir Henry, (c 1641-1710), Knight, military engineer
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, (1792-1822), poet
- Smales, William, (fl 1812-1832), Lieutenant RN
- Smith, Goldwin, (1823-1910), journalist and historian
- Smyth, John, (1567-1641), antiquary
- Somers, John, (1651-1716), 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor
- Soule, Caroline Augusta, (1824-1903), Universalist Minister
- Spender, Sir Stephen Harold, (1909-1995), Knight, poet
- Spotswood, Alexander, (1676-1740), Governor of Virginia
- Squire, Sir John Collings, (1884-1958), Knight, writer and journalist
- Stanfell, Francis, (fl 1812-1831), Naval Officer
- Stanhope, James, (1673-1721), 1st Earl Stanhope
- Stanhope, William, (?1683-1756), 1st Earl of Harrington, statesman
- Stanyan, Abraham, (? 1669-1732), Diplomat
- Stephen, Sir Leslie, (1832-1904), Knight, man of letters, philosopher, biographer, mountaineer
- Stephens, James, (1882-1950), poet and novelist
- Stern, James, (1904-1993), writer and translator
- Strachey, Giles Lytton, (1880-1932), Critic and Biographer
- Symons, Arthur William, (1865-1945), editor, critic and poet
- Talbot, Charles, (1660-1718), Duke of Shrewsbury, statesman
- Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet
- Terry, Dame Alice Ellen, (1847-1928), actress
- Thomas, Dylan, (1914-1953), poet and dramatist Swansea, Glamorgan
- Thompson, John, (fl 1848-1867), Commander RN
- Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour, (1884-1941), Knight Novelist and Man of Letters
- Ward, Mary Augusta, (1851-1920), novelist and social worker Hobart, Tasmania;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, (1834-1903), painter
- Whittingham, Charles, (1767-1840), printer
- Whittingham, Charles, (1795-1876), printer
- Whitworth, Charles, (1675-1725), Baron Whitworth, diplomat
- Williamson, Sir Adam, (1736-1798), Knight, Lt-General, colonial governor
- Williamson, Henry, (1839-1925), Unitarian Minister
- Winwood, Sir Ralph, (1563-1617), Knight, Secretary of State and Diplomat
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, (1759-1797), philosopher and writer Spitalfields, Middlesex
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia, (1882-1941), author and critic Kensington, Middlesex
- Woolf, Leonard Sidney, (1880-1969), editor, author and civil servant
- Yeats, John Butler, (1839-1922), artist
- Yeats, William Butler, (1865-1939), poet and playwright
- Yorke, Charles, (1722-1770), Lord Chancellor
- Yorke, Philip, (1690-1764), 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor Dover, Kent
- Young, Arthur, (1741-1820), agriculturist
Diaries (7)
- Chalmers, John, Army Officer Lorient, France
- Elliott, (fl1775), Captain, Royal Navy Boston, Massachusetts
- Farquarson, Alexander, (fl 1762), seaman
- Menzies, John, (fl 1793), Seaman
- Ross, F, (1813-1814), Seaman
- Unnamed male, (fl 1762), British naval Lieutenant Martinique
- Unnamed male, (fl 1758), sailor
Families (4)
- Montagu family, Dukes of Manchester Pertonhall, Bedfordshire;Swineshead, Bedfordshire;Doddington, Cambridgeshire;March, Cambridgeshire;Thorney, Cambridgeshire;Wimblington, Cambridgeshire;Kelvedon, Essex;Little Leighs, Essex;Mucking, Essex;Hertfordshire;Brampton, Huntingdonshire;Ellington, Huntingdonshire;Grafham, Huntingdonshire;Houghton, Huntingdonshire;Keyston, Huntingdonshire;Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire;Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire;Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire;St Ives, Huntingdonshire;Wyton, Huntingdonshire;Cornhill, London;London;Holborn, Middlesex;Westminster, Middlesex;West Dereham, Norfolk;Dogsthorpe, Northamptonshire;Longthorpe, Northamptonshire;Thorpe Hall, Northamptonshire;Bloxwich, Staffordshire;Shenstone, Staffordshire;Walsall, Staffordshire;Stoke by Clare, Suffolk;Knowle, Warwickshire;Ballymore, County Armagh;Portadown, County Armagh;Tanderagee, County Armagh;Tanderagee Castle, County Armagh;Bermuda;New Zealand;Virginia
- Smyth family of North Nibley North Nibley, Gloucestershire;Slimbridge, Gloucestershire;Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
- Williamson family of Avebury Avebury, Wiltshire
- Yorke family, Earls of Hardwicke Wimpole, Cambridgeshire;Arrington, Cambridgeshire;Haddenham, Cambridgeshire;Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire;Shingay, Cambridgeshire;Topsham, Devon;Great Bardfield, Essex;Hardwicke, Gloucestershire;Haresfield, Gloucestershire;Aspenden, Hertfordshire;Ridge, Hertfordshire;Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire;Reigate, Surrey
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (2)
- NRA 20054 Smyth family of Nibley: papers
- NRA 20038 Yorke family, Earls of Hardwicke: collection of diplomatic corresp and papers link to online catalogue