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Organisations (6)
Persons (110)
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Bayly, Thomas Haynes, (1797-1839), miscellaneous writer
- Bentley, Richard, (1794-1871), publisher
- Blathwayt, William, (?1649-1717), statesman and civil servant
- Britton, John, (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer
- Brougham, Henry Peter, (1778-1868), 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, Lord Chancellor
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, (1806-1861), poet
- Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), poet
- Bryant, Jacob, (1715-1804), Classical Scholar Theologian
- Bryce, James, (1838-1922), Viscount Bryce of Dechmount, statesman
- Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, (1762-1837), 1st Baronet, MP, bibliographer and genealogist
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, (1803-1873), 1st Baron Lytton, statesman and novelist
- Burgoyne, John, (1722-1792), General Politician and Dramatist
- Byron, Anne Isabella, (1792-1860) Baroness Wentworth, mathematician
- Cadell, Thomas, (1742-1802), Publisher
- Carpenter, Mary, (1807-1877), philanthropist and educationalist
- Carteret, Philip, (1733-1796), Rear Admiral
- Carteret, Sir Philip, (1777-1828), 2nd Baronet Captain RN
- Clarkson, Thomas, (1760-1846), philanthropist
- Clarkson, William, (1865-1934), Theatrical Costumer
- Cobbett, William, (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962), Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Colles, William Morris, (1855-1926), literary agent London
- Collier, John Payne, (1789-1883), Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary and journalist
- Collins, William Wilkie, (1824-1889), novelist and playwright London
- Cranch, John, (1751-1821), Painter
- Croker, John Wilson, (1780-1857), politician and essayist
- Cromwell, Oliver, (1599-1658), Lord Protector
- Curtis, Sir Roger, (1746-1816), Knight Admiral
- Darby, Sir Henry D'Esterre, (d 1823), Knight, Admiral
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam, (1812-1870), novelist and journalist
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, (1810-1869), 1st Baronet
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, (1843-1911), Knight, 2nd Baronet, politician and author
- Douglas, Norman, (1868-1952), author and traveller
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns, (1888-1965), poet
- Ellis, Henry Havelock, (1859-1939), psychologist, writer and social reformer Croydon, Surrey
- Estlin, John Bishop, (1785-1855), Ophthalmic Surgeon Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Faithfull, Emily, (1835-1895), printer, editor and lecturer
- Fitzgerald, Edward, (1809-1883), poet and translator
- Fry, Elizabeth, (1780-1845), penal reformer and philanthropist
- Garrick, David, (1717-1779), actor
- Gatty, Margaret, (1809-1873), writer and naturalist
- Gill, Eric, (1882-1940), sculptor and engraver
- Ginckel, Godert de, (1644-1703), 1st Earl of Athlone, General
- Gissing, George Robert, (1857-1903), novelist
- Gordon, Charles George, (1833-1885), Major General China
- Grant, James, (1802-1879), Journalist
- Greenaway, Catherine, (1846-1901), Children's Writer and Illustrator
- Hamilton, Sir William, (1730-1803) Knight, diplomat and archaeologist
- Harland, Henry, (1861-1905), Novelist
- Haughton, James, (1795-1873), Philanthropist
- Haweis, Hugh Reginald, (1838-1901), Author and Preacher
- Henley, Samuel, (1740-1815), Commentator
- Herbert, Henry William, (1807-1858), author
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson, (1785-1865), Knight, botanist Norwich, Norfolk
- Howitt, Mary, (1799-1888), writer
- Howitt, William, (1792-1879), author
- Ireland, Samuel, (d 1800), Author and Engraver
- Ireland, William Henry, (1777-1835), Writer and Forger
- James, George Payne Rainsford, (1799-1860), novelist historian and diplomat
- Kean, Charles John, (? 1811-1868), Actor
- Kent, William Charles Mark, (1823-1902), poet, biographer and journalist
- Knight, Anne, (1786-1862), Radical Reformer and Quaker
- Knight, William Angus, (1836-1916), author and philosopher
- Lancaster, Joseph, (1778-1838), philanthropist
- Lofft, Capell, (1751-1824), writer
- Lort, Michael, (1725-1790), Antiquary
- Macartney, George, (1737-1806), Earl Macartney
- Malone, Edmund, (1741-1812), critic and author
- Marston, John Westland, (1819-1890), Dramatic Poet
- Martin, Sir Henry Byam, (1803-1865), Knight and Admiral
- Martineau, Harriet, (1802-1876), writer
- Meynell, Sir Francis, (1891-1975), publisher and poet
- Milne, Sir Alexander, (1806-1896), 1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet
- Mitford, Mary Russell, (1787-1855), novelist and dramatist
- Moore, George Augustus, (1852-1933), Author
- Moore, Thomas, (1779-1852), poet
- More, Hannah, (1745-1833), writer
- Newman, Francis William, (1805-1897), Scholar and Man of Letters
- O'Connell, Daniel, (1775-1847), politician
- Pascoe, Charles Eyre, (1842-1912), Author
- Percy, Thomas, (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, antiquary
- Pownall, Thomas, (1722-1805), Politician Antiquary
- Radcliffe, Anne, (1764-1823), novelist
- Rideing, William Henry, (1853-1919), journalist
- Rodd, Thomas, (1796-1849), Bookseller
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, (1828-1882), painter and poet
- Rossetti, William Michael, (1829-1919), man of letters and art critic
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Sharp, Granville, (1735-1813), Philanthropist
- Smith, John Russell, (1810-1894), bookseller
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Sturge, Joseph, (1793-1859), philanthropist
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, (1837-1909), poet
- Tagart, Edward, (1804-1858), Unitarian Minister Antiquary
- Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet
- Tennyson, Emily Sarah, (1813-1896), Lady Tennyson, secretary and manager for her husband, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1811-1863), novelist
- Thompson, George, (1804-1878), Anti Slavery Advocate
- Townshend, George, (1724-1807), 1st Marquess Townshend, Field Marshal
- Trollope, Anthony, (1815-1882), novelist
- Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, (1810-1892), Author
- Vezin, Hermann, (1829-1910), Actor and elocutionist
- Villiers, Edward, (1656-1711), 1st Earl of Jersey
- Watts, Isaac, (1674-1748), Independent minister and writer
- Wheler, Robert Bell, (1785-1857), antiquary
- Wilberforce, William, (1759-1833), MP, philanthropist
- Wilson, John Gideon, (1898-1963), Bookseller
Families (3)
- Darby family of Warbleton Warbleton, Sussex;Old Jewry, London
- Martin family, baronets, of Lockynge Lockynge, Berkshire;Lockinge, Berkshire
- Townshend family, Marquesses Townshend Calverton, Buckinghamshire;Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire;Ely, Cambridgeshire;Fordham, Cambridgeshire;Soham, Cambridgeshire;Ashbourne, Derbyshire;Walton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire;East Donyland, Essex;Great Bentley, Essex;Wivenhoe, Essex;Kempsford, Gloucestershire;Amwell, Hertfordshire;Balls Park, Hertfordshire;Bengeo, Hertfordshire;Gorhambury, Hertfordshire;Wigston Magna, Leicestershire;London;Canonbury, Middlesex;Clerkenwell, Middlesex;Binham, Norfolk;Coxford, Norfolk;East Raynham, Norfolk;Great Yarmouth, Norfolk;Helhoughton, Norfolk;Horsham St Faith, Norfolk;Langham, Norfolk;Morston, Norfolk;Oxwich with Pattesley, Norfolk;Raynham Hall, Norfolk;Stiffkey, Norfolk;Weasenham, Norfolk;Wellingham, Norfolk;West Rudham, Norfolk;Elkington, Northamptonshire;Tamworth, Staffordshire;Tettenhall, Staffordshire;Akenham, Suffolk;Great Thurlow, Suffolk;Kentford, Suffolk;Rendlesham, Suffolk;Flecknoe, Warwickshire;Lea Marston, Warwickshire;Wellesbourne, Warwickshire;Hannington, Wiltshire;Inglesham, Wiltshire;Ramsbury, Wiltshire;Risby, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (5)
- NRA 11046 Boston Public Library, Massachusetts, USA: English literary MSS
- NRA 18676 Cranch family papers
- NRA 26054 George Payne Rainsford James, novelist: corresp
- NRA 616 Johnson family, baronets, of New York: family papers
- NRA 22724 George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend: misc corresp