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Businesses (1)
- Morris & Co Ltd, upholsterers, cabinet makers, tapestry and wallpaper manufacturers London;Merton, Surrey
Persons (143)
- Adams, Francis William Lauderdale (1862-1893) author
- Astle, Thomas (1735-1803), antiquary, archivist and palaeographer
- Bailey, James (c 1790-1864) Classical Scholar Schoolmaster
- Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820) Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), German composer and pianist Germany
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (1870-1953), poet and author
- Blagden, Sir Charles (1748-1820) Knight Physician
- Blagden, Isa Jane (d 1873) author
- Blake, William (1757-1827) Poet Painter and Engraver
- Blow, John (1648-1708), composer
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922), hedonist, poet, and breeder of Arab horses
- Bradley, Katharine Harris (1846-1914), poet and dramatist
- Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855), novelist and poet
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), poet
- Browning, Robert (1812-1889), poet
- Buckland, William (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824), Knight and politician
- Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley (1833-1898) 1st Baronet, painter
- Butler, Lady Eleanor (c 1739-1829) One of the Ladies of Llangollen
- Cary, Henry Francis (1772-1844) Translator
- Cavendish, Spencer Compton (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
- Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) Poet
- Clare, John (1793-1864), poet
- Clarke, James Stanier (?1765-1834), Canon of Windsor, Royal Librarian and naval historian
- Cobbett, William (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher
- Cobden, Richard (1804-1865), statesman and businessman
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962) Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Cole, William, (1714-1782), Anglican clergyman and antiquary
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Collingwood, William Gershom (1854-1932), antiquary, archaeologist and artist
- Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845-1927) Knight, art and literary critic
- Constable, John (1776-1837), landscape painter
- Costa, Emanuel Mendes Da (1717-1791), naturalist
- Craggs, James (1686-1721) Secretary of State
- Cubitt, George (1828-1917) 1st Baron Ashcombe, politician
- Currie, Lady Mary Montgomerie (1843-1905), poet and novelist
- Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802), physician botanist and poet
- Dent, Edward Joseph (1876-1957), musicologist
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Dobson, Henry Austin (1840-1921) Poet and Literary Biographer
- Doughty, Charles Montagu (1843-1926), poet and traveller
- Dryander, Jonas (1748-1810) Botanist
- Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849), novelist and children's writer
- Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901), bookseller and author
- Etty, William (1787-1849) Painter
- Fairfax, Thomas (1612-1671) 3rd Baron Fairfax, General
- Flaxman, John (1755-1826), sculptor
- Gilpin, William (1724-1804) Clergyman Educationist Biographer Topographer
- Goss, Sir John (1800-1880) Knight Musician
- Greene, Richard (1716-1793), antiquary and surgeon
- Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta (1852-1932), playwright and poet Roxborough, County Limerick
- Grosvenor, Lady Sibell Mary (1855-1929), wife of George Wyndham
- Grove, Sir George (1820-1900) Knight Civil Engineer Writer On Music
- Handel, George Frederick (1685-1759), musical composer Halle, Germany;London
- Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Hassall, Joan (1906-1988), painter and wood engraver
- Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846), painter
- Hayley, William (1745-1820), poet
- Holroyd, John Baker (1735-1821) 1st Earl of Sheffield, statesman
- Hood, Thomas (1835-1874), humorist
- Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Housman, Laurence (1865-1959), writer and artist
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859), essayist and poet
- Hutton, James (1726-1797), geologist
- Irwin, Eyles (? 1751-1817) Writer
- James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936) Biblical Scholar Antiquary Palaeographer
- Johnson, John (d 1833) Kinsman and Friend of Cowper
- Keats, John (1795-1821), poet
- Keene, Charles Samuel (1823-1891), artist
- Kenyon, John (1784-1856) Poet and Philanthropist
- Kinglake, Alexander William (1809-1891), MP, historian and traveller
- Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873) Knight Painter
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830) Knight, painter
- Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896) Baron Leighton of Stretton, painter
- Lever, Sir Ashton (1729-1788) Knight Collector of the Leverian Museum
- Lind, James (1736-1812) Physician and Astronomer
- Locke, Matthew (c 1621-1677), English composer and music theorist Exeter, Devon;Netherlands
- Lytton, Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt- (1873-1957) 16th Baroness Wentworth, author
- Meynell, Wilfrid (1852-1948), journalist and biographer
- Millais, Sir John Everett (1829-1896) Knight, painter
- Miller, John Samuel (d 1831), geologist
- Milles, Carl (1875-1955) Swedish Sculptor
- Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855), novelist and dramatist
- Moore, Thomas (1779-1852), poet
- Morris, Jane (1839-1914), wife of William Morris
- Morris, William (1834-1896), poet artist and socialist Walthamstow, Essex
- Newman, John Henry (1801-1890) Cardinal, priest, poet and theologian
- Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher
- Oliphant, Laurence (1829-1888), diplomatist, traveller and mystic
- Opie, Amelia (1769-1853), novelist and poet
- Paget, Violet (1856-1935), author
- Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882) Orientalist
- Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (1848-1918) Knight Composer and Musical Writer
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Perceval, Spencer (1762-1812), statesman
- Perceval, Spencer George (1838-1922) Antiquary and Geologist
- Percy, Thomas (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, antiquary
- Philips, Nathaniel George (1795-1832) Artist
- Phillips, Sir Richard (1767-1840) Knight Author Bookseller and Publisher
- Prout, Samuel (1783-1852), water colour painter Plymouth, Devon
- Purcell, Henry (c1659-1695), composer
- Pye, Sybil Emily (1879-1950), bookbinder
- Raleigh, Sir Walter (? 1552-1618) Knight Military and Naval Commander Author
- Redmond, John Edward (1856-1918), politician
- Repton, Humphry (1752-1818), landscape gardener
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792), Knight painter
- Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775-1867) Diarist
- Romney, George (1734-1802), painter
- Ross, Sir John (1777-1856) Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
- 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
- Sackville, Lady Margaret (1881-1963), author
- Seward, Anna (1747-1809), author
- Seward, Thomas (1708-1790) Prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury Poet
- Shannon, Charles Haslewood (1863-1937) Lithographer and Painter
- Shee, Sir Martin Archer (1769-1850) Knight, portrait painter
- Skinner, John (1772-1839), rector of Camerton antiquary
- Smiles, Samuel (1812-1904), biographer and didact
- Smith, William (1769-1839), geologist and engineer
- Southey, Robert (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Squire, William Barclay (1855-1927) Musical Antiquary
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers (1852-1924), Knight composer and conductor
- Starke, Marriana (? 1762-1838) Playwright and Travel Writer
- Strange, Guy Le (1854-1933) Orientalist Historian
- Strutt, William (1756-1830), inventor
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), poet
- Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863), novelist
- Thomas, Arthur Goring (1850-1892) Composer
- Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725), antiquary and topographer
- Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), Landscape Painter
- Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694-1778), French Man of Letters
- Walker, Joseph Cooper (1761-1810), antiquary
- Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) 4th Earl of Orford, author collector antiquary MP
- Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884-1941) Knight Novelist and Man of Letters
- Walpole, Thomas (1727-1803) MP London Merchant and Banker
- Warren, Joseph (1804-1881) Musician
- Watson, Caroline (? 1761-1814) Engraver
- Watts, George Frederic (1817-1904), painter and sculptor
- Webb, Philip Speakman (1831-1915), architect
- Webster, Thomas (1773-1844) Geologist
- Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- White, Gilbert (1720-1793), naturalist
Families (1)
- Blunt, family of Crabbet Park Crabbet Park, Sussex;Crawley, Sussex;Ifield, Sussex;Newbuildings, Sussex;Rusper, Sussex;Shipley, Sussex;Worth, Sussex
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 18524 HL Bradfer-Lawrence MSS
- NRA 25589 James Stewart Henderson collection
- NRA 41075 Montague Rhodes James, biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer: notebooks
- NRA 22840 Sir Robert Peel: corresp with artists
