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Businesses (112)
- Adolph Jacobs & Co Ltd, wool and noil merchants Bradford, Yorkshire
- Airedale Mill Co Ltd, commission scribblers, spinners and finishers Rodley, Yorkshire
- Albert Edward Leak, rope manufacturer Leeds, Yorkshire
- Benjamin Gott & Sons, woollen cloth manufacturers and merchants Leeds, Yorkshire
- Blackburn, Tolson & Co Ltd, woollen manufacturers Heckmondwike, Yorkshire
- Bradford & Thornton Railway Co Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Dyers Association Ltd Bradford, Yorkshire
- British National Opera Co London
- Christopher Waud & Co, worsted spinners Bradford, Yorkshire
- Crockatt Cleaning Ltd, dyers and dry cleaners Leeds, Yorkshire
- David Sowden & Son Ltd, loom manufacturers Shipley, Yorkshire
- David Sykes & Sons, cloth finishers Hunslet, Yorkshire
- E Fox & Sons Ltd, shoddy manufacturers Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Edward Longbottom, dyer Batley, Yorkshire
- Edward Ripley & Son Ltd, dyers and finishers Bradford, Yorkshire
- EJ Arnold & Son Ltd, wholesale & manufacturing stationers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Enitharmon Press Leeds, Yorkshire;London
- Farnley coal pits Farnley, Yorkshire
- Fighting Cock Press / Pennine Poets Archive
- Ford, Ayrton & Co Ltd, silk spinners Bentham, Yorkshire
- Foster & Lassey, clayworks Queens Head, Shropshire
- Foster Kirby, Pluckham Farm Thixendale, Yorkshire
- G & J Stubley Ltd, woollen manufacturers Batley, Yorkshire
- George Crowther & Co, woollen manufacturers Churwell, Yorkshire
- George Hattersley & Sons Ltd, worsted spinners and manufacturers Keighley, Yorkshire
- H. M. Lee & Sons, antique dealers
- Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway Co Halifax, Yorkshire
- Halifax, Thornton & Keighley Railways Halifax, Yorkshire
- Harry Rider & Co, textile manufacturers Oakworth, Yorkshire
- HC Baxter & Sons, antiques dealers, Eastbourne Eastbourne, Sussex
- Henry Booth & Sons Ltd, woollen cloth manufacturers Gildersome, Yorkshire
- Henry Briggs Son & Co Ltd, colliery owners Whitwood, Yorkshire
- Hollis & Webb
- Holly Park Mill Co Ltd, dyers, scribblers, carders, spinners, fullers Calverley, Yorkshire
- Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co Ltd, loom manufacturers Dobcross, Yorkshire
- Illingworth Lassey & Foster, coal masters Leeds, Yorkshire
- Isaac Chippindale & Sons, brick and tile manufacturers Scholes, Yorkshire
- Isaac Holden & Sons Ltd, wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- James & RJ Lister, woollen spinners and yarn merchants Frizinghall, Yorkshire
- James France & Co Ltd, carpet and woollen manufacturers, yarn spinners Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- JC Waddington & Sons Ltd (formerly William Brayshaw & Sons), woollen and worsted dyers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Jeremiah Ambler & Sons Ltd, combers, spinners and weavers Bradford, Yorkshire
- John & David Spencer & Sons, wool staplers Keighley, Yorkshire
- John Anderton, worsted manufacturer Cullingworth, Yorkshire
- John Bancroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners Oxenhope, Yorkshire
- John Bowling & Co Ltd, ironfounders Leeds, Yorkshire
- John Broadbent & Son (Longwood) Ltd, woollen manufacturers and merchants Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- John Foster and Son, worsted, alpaca, mohair spinners and mfrs Queensbury, Yorkshire
- John Hirst & Sons, woollen manufacturers Dobcross, Yorkshire
- John Holdworth & Co Ltd, moquette spinners and manufacturers Halifax, Yorkshire
- John Maude & Sons, woollen manufacturers Stainland, Yorkshire
- John Raistrick & Sons, woollen manufacturers Idle, Yorkshire
- John Reddihough Ltd, wool merchants, top makers, wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- John Taylors & Sons Ltd, woollen manufacturers Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Jonathan Akroyd, clothier Halifax, Yorkshire
- Joseph Bufton, weaver Coggeshall, Essex
- Joseph Horsfall & Sons Ltd, worsted spinners Halifax, Yorkshire
- Joseph Lee, woollen manufacturer Idle, Yorkshire
- JT Clay & Sons Ltd, worsted and woollen manufacturers Rastrick, Yorkshire
- Kellett Brown & Co Ltd, spinners, scribblers, scourers, fullers and tenterers Calverley, Yorkshire
- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co Manchester, Lancashire;Horwich, Lancashire
- Leeds General Cemetery Co Ltd Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds White Cloth Hall Leeds, Yorkshire
- Lister & Co plc, wool combers, silk spinners and knitting wool manufacturers Bradford, Yorkshire
- London Magazine London
- M. Turpin Antiques Ltd
- Marshall & Co, flax spinners Leeds, Yorkshire;Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Mathew Wilson, barrister Westminster, Middlesex
- Midland Railway Co Derby, Derbyshire
- Mill Almondbury, Yorkshire
- New Statesman, magazine London
- North Biddick Colliery Biddick, Durham
- Oates Bros (Halifax) Ltd, worsted spinners Halifax, Yorkshire
- Opera North, opera company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Phillips of Hitchin (Antiques) Ltd, antique dealer, Hitchin Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Phoenix Dance Company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Queen Square & Park Square Art Galleries Leeds, Yorkshire
- Red Ladder Theatre Co Leeds, Yorkshire
- RJC Dance, dance company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Robert Clough (Keighley) Ltd, worsted spinners and manufacturers Keighley, Yorkshire
- Robert Jowitt & Sons Ltd, wool merchants, combers, scourers, carbonisers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Roger Warner, antiques dealer, Burford Burford, Oxfordshire
- RV Marriner Ltd, worsted spinners and manufacturers Keighley, Yorkshire
- S Tempest & Co, dress manufacturers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Samuel Cockcroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners Bradford, Yorkshire
- Sausmerez-Carey, wine-shipper and merchant Guernsey
- Sir James Hill & Sons Ltd, wool merchants and topmakers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Stair & Co, antique dealers
- Stand, poetry magazine
- T Berry (Bradford) Ltd, wool, noils and waste dealers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Tchengelek Proprietary Co Ltd, oilfield proprietors London
- The Morning Post, newspaper London
- Thomas Askren, farmer Yorkshire, West Riding
- Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Ltd, millers, finishers, waterproofers, embossers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Thomas Croft, Fridaythorpe Lodge Farm Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire
- Thomas Eskricke, farmer Howden, Yorkshire
- Thomas Hield & Sons Ltd, yarn merchants and exporters Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Thomas Ibbotson, worsted manufacturer Leeds, Yorkshire
- W & E Crowther Ltd, woollen manufacturers Slaithwaite, Yorkshire
- Waywiser Press, publishers, Chipping Norton Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
- West Riding & Grimsby Railway Co Wakefield, Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Whitwood Colliery Co Whitwood, Yorkshire
- William & Jonathan Clarkson Ltd, woollen cloth manufacturers Pudsey, Yorkshire
- William Ackroyd Ltd, worsted spinners, Otley Otley, Yorkshire
- William Gawthorp & Co, commission wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- William Hanson & Co Ltd, cotton spinners and doublers Halifax, Yorkshire
- William Lupton & Co Ltd, woollen manufacturers and traders Leeds, Yorkshire
- William Rhodes Ltd, flock manufacturers Leeds, Yorkshire
- William Willans & Co Ltd, wool merchants Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Wormalds & Walker Ltd, blanket manufacturers Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Land & Warping Co, investment company Doncaster, Yorkshire
Organisations (136)
- Adel Preparative Meeting Adel, Yorkshire
- African Theatre, theatre company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Allen Committee of Inquiry into the Impact of Rates on Households
- Ampleforth (Helmsley) Preparative Meeting Ampleforth, Yorkshire
- Angela Thirkell Society
- Askwith Preparative Meeting Askwith, Yorkshire
- Association for Science Education
- Association for Technical Education in Schools
- Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching
- Association of Education Committees
- Association of Northern Secondary Technical Schools
- Association of Science Teachers
- Association of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers of Leeds and District Leeds, Yorkshire
- Association of Women Science Teachers
- Bentham Preparative Meeting Bentham, Yorkshire
- Bingley Preparative Meeting Bingley, Yorkshire
- Bradfield parish Bradfield, Yorkshire
- Bradford Preparative Meeting Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Society of Friends Bradford, Yorkshire
- Brighouse Monthly Meeting Brighouse, Yorkshire
- Brighouse Preparative Meeting Brighouse, Yorkshire
- Brighouse Society of Friends Brighouse, Yorkshire
- British Association for the Advancement of Science: Leeds meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- British Education Index Leeds, Yorkshire
- British League of Help
- British Society for the History of Science
- British Society for the History of Science
- Bubwith Preparative Meeting Bubwith, Yorkshire
- Christadelphians
- Church Socialist League
- Cottingwith Preparative Meeting Cottingwith, Yorkshire
- Dacre Preparative Meeting Dacre, Yorkshire
- Darley Preparative Meeting Darley, Yorkshire
- Gildersome Preparative Meeting Gildersome, Yorkshire
- Gottingen British Society Gottingen, Germany
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Greenham, Berkshire
- Halifax Preparative Meeting Halifax, Yorkshire
- Harrogate Londesboro Working Men's Club Harrogate, Yorkshire
- Harrogate Preparative Meeting Harrogate, Yorkshire
- Hatfield parish Hatfield, Yorkshire
- HMS Invincible (1869)
- Holbeck and New Wortley Mechanics Institution Holbeck, Yorkshire
- Holden Library, Diocese of Ripon Ripon, Yorkshire
- Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Huby Preparative Meeting Huby, Yorkshire
- Huddersfield Preparative Meeting Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Hull Lubricating Oil Trade Association Hull, Yorkshire
- Ilkley Preparative Meeting Ilkley, Yorkshire
- Institution of Civil Engineers: Yorkshire students association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Keighley Meeting Keighley, Yorkshire
- Keighley Preparative Meeting Keighley, Yorkshire
- Kellington township Kellington, Yorkshire
- Knaresborough Monthly Meeting Knaresborough, Yorkshire
- Knaresborough Preparative Meeting Knaresborough, Yorkshire
- Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- League of the Kingdom of God
- Leeds Academic Assistance Committee Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Association of Engineers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Board of Guardians Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Chamber of Commerce and Industry Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Chamber of Trade Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Monthly Meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Monthly Meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Preparative Meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Public and Sub-Public Assistance Committees Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Retailers Association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds University Cricket Club
- Leeds University Staff Tennis Club Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds University Union Theatre Group Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds White Cloth Hall Leeds, Yorkshire
- Lipman-Miliband Trust, socialist research and education charity
- Liverpool Philomathic Society Liverpool, Lancashire
- Lothersdale Preparative Meeting Lothersdale, Yorkshire
- Manchester, Chester and Ripon Diocesan Church Temperance Society: Bradford branch Bradford, Yorkshire
- Mankinholes Preparative Meeting Mankinholes, Yorkshire
- Marrick Priory (Benedictine) Marrick, Yorkshire
- Mary, Lady Lister, of Thornton Thornton, Yorkshire
- Midland Institute of Mining Engineers
- Morley Preparative Meeting Morley, Yorkshire
- Morning Post Field Force Fund
- National Gypsy Council Leeds, Yorkshire
- National Union of Teachers: Leeds association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Netherdale (Dacre) Preparative Meeting Dacre, Yorkshire
- New Earswick Preparative Meeting Earswick, Yorkshire
- No 517 (London) Field Company, Royal Engineers London
- North of England Education Conference
- Northallerton Preparative Meeting Northallerton, Yorkshire
- Notton and Royston (Staincross) Commons Notton, Yorkshire
- Oil Distributors Emergency Council: Yorkshire area Yorkshire and the Humber
- Oliver Borthwick Memorial Home, London London
- Owstwick (Holderness) Monthly Meeting Owstwick, Yorkshire;Holderness, Yorkshire
- Queen Square and Park Square Galleries, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Rawdon Preparative Meeting Rawdon, Yorkshire
- Rawdon Quaker School Rawdon, Yorkshire
- Ripon Dean and Chapter Ripon, Yorkshire
- Roundhay Preparative Meeting Roundhay, Yorkshire
- Rounton Preparative Meeting West Rounton, Yorkshire
- Salterforth and Lothersdale Preparative Meeting Salterforth, Yorkshire;Lothersdale, Yorkshire
- Salterforth Preparative Meeting Salterforth, Yorkshire
- Scholes Preparative Meeting Scholes, Yorkshire
- School Natural Science Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Science Association
- Science Masters Association
- Selby Preparative Meeting Selby, Yorkshire
- Selside Preparative Meeting Yorkshire, West Riding
- Settle Monthly Meeting Settle, Yorkshire
- Settle Preparative Meeting Settle, Yorkshire
- Sheffield parishes Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Skipton Preparative Meeting Skipton, Yorkshire
- Society for the Protection of Science and Learning
- Society for the Study of Theology
- Society of Jesus: Paraguay Province
- Star Chamber
- Stocksbridge township Stocksbridge, Yorkshire
- T B Pease: Sheepscar estate, Leeds Sheepscar, Yorkshire
- Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah Harehills, Yorkshire
- Thirsk Monthly Meeting Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Thirsk Preparative Meeting Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Thomas de Garis of Guernsey Guernsey
- Thornton le Clay Preparative Meeting Thornton-le-Clay, Yorkshire
- West Riding Executive Research Committee Yorkshire, West Riding
- West Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions Yorkshire, West Riding
- West Yorkshire Coal Owners Association Leeds, Yorkshire
- William III's army in the Low Countries
- York Monthly Meeting York, Yorkshire
- York Preparative Meeting York, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire College Athletics Union, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire College, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Geological Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Lubricating Oils and Grease Trades Association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Music Festivals Yorkshire and the Humber
- Yorkshire Naturalists Union Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting Yorkshire and the Humber
- Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society Yorkshire and the Humber
- Zion Old British School, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
Persons (678)
- Pilling, Christopher, (1936), English poet, playwright, translator and teacher
- Abbey, Edwin Austin, (1852-1911), illustrator and painter
- Abercrombie, Lascelles, (1881-1938), poet and critic
- Adams, Sir Walter, (1906-1975), Knight, economist
- Adcock, Arthur St John, (1864-1930), novelist
- Aitken, John, (1839-1919), meteorologist
- Aitken, William Maxwell, (1879-1964), 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor
- Aldington, Richard, (1892-1962), Novelist
- Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, (1848-1899), author
- Allen, Diana, (1916-2007), campaigner
- Allingham, William, (1824-1889), poet
- Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, (1836-1912), Knight, Painter
- Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, (1873-1955), politician and journalist
- Anderson, John Redwood, (1883-1964), Poet
- Andrews, William Linton, (1886-1972), journalist
- Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich, (1871-1919), Russian Writer and Emigre
- Archer, William, (1856-1924), dramatist and drama critic
- Armitage, Edward, (1822-1906), Botanist
- Armitage, Simon, (b1963), poet and writer
- Armstead, Henry Hugh, (1828-1905), Sculptor
- Armstrong, Terence Ian Fitton, (1912-1970), poet and bibliographer
- Arnold, Matthew, (1822-1888), poet and critic
- Arnold, Thomas, (1795-1842), headmaster of Rugby, historian
- Arnold, Thomas, (1823-1900), professor of English Literature
- Ashby, Eric, (1904-1992), Baron Ashby, botanist
- Ashby, George, (1724-1808), President of St John's College Cambridge, antiquary
- Ashton, Winifred, (1888-1965), Novelist and Playwright as Clemence Dane
- Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret, (1864-1945) Countess of Oxford and Asquith, socialite, author, and wit
- Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
- Astbury, William Thomas, (1898-1961), physicist
- Ayrton, Edmund, (1734-1808), composer
- Baddeley, Welbore St Clair, (1856-1946), Antiquary
- Bailey, Kenneth, (1909-1963), Biochemist
- Baillie, Sir James Black, (1872-1940), Knight, philosopher and public servant
- Bain, John Vernon, (1922-2007), poet
- Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Ball, Sir George Joseph, (1885-1961), Knight Property and Mine Owner
- Banks, Cyril, (1901-1969), MP
- Barbier, Paul, (1873-1947), Professor of French, Leeds University
- Baring, Evelyn, (1841-1917), 1st Earl of Cromer, statesman
- Baring, Maurice, (1874-1945), journalist and author
- Barrett, Wilson, (1846-1904), Actor and Playwright
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Barstow, Stan, (1928-2011), writer Horbury, Yorkshire;Pontardawe, Glamorgan
- Barton, Bernard, (1784-1849), Quaker Poet
- Bateman, Michael, (1932-2006), writer
- Bates, Leslie Fleetwood, (1897-1978), physicist
- Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances, (1871-1965) Countess Bathurst, newspaper publisher
- Bathurst, Seymour Henry, (1864-1943), 7th Earl Bathurst, Colonel
- Bauman, Zygmunt, (1925-2017), sociologist and philosopher
- Bax, Clifford, (1886-1962), author and playwright
- Beaty, David, (1919-1999), pilot and author
- Beaumont, Charles Genevieve d'Eon de, (1728-1810), Chevalier d' Beaumont, French diplomat and author
- Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian, (1872-1956), Knight, author and cartoonist
- Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie, (1856-1930), Writer
- Bell, John, (1811-1895), Sculptor
- Bell, Martin , (1918-1978), English poet
- Bellenden, John, (fl 1533-1587), poet
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold, (1867-1931), novelist playwright and journalist
- Benson, Arthur Christopher, (1862-1925), writer
- Beresford, Maurice Warwick, (1920-2005), historian and archaeologist
- Bernal, John Desmond, (1901-1971), physicist
- Berry, Francis, (1915-2006), poet and Professor of English
- Besant, Sir Walter, (1836-1901), Knight, novelist and historian
- Betham-Edwards, Matilda Barbara, (1836-1919), writer
- Betjeman, Sir John, (1906-1984), Knight, poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster
- Bill, Mathie, (fl1892-2003), editor and secretary to the School of Medicine, University of Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Binyon, Robert Laurence, (1869-1943), poet art historian and critic
- Birdwood, William Riddell, (1865-1951), 1st Baron Birdwood, Field Marshal
- Birrell, Augustine, (1850-1933), author and statesman
- Bithell, Jethro, (1878-1962), Reader in German
- Black, Joseph, (1728-1799), chemist
- Blackburn, Michael, (b 1954), poet
- Blackburn, Thomas, (1916-1977), poet
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, (1897-1974), Baron Blackett, physicist
- Blunden, Edmund Charles, (1896-1974), poet
- Borrow, George Henry, (1803-1881), writer and traveller
- Borthwick, Algernon, (1830-1908), Baron Glenesk
- Borthwick, Alice Beatrice, (d1898), Baroness Glenesk
- Bottomley, Gordon, (1874-1948), poet and dramatist
- Bottrall, Francis James Ronald, (1906-1989), poet
- Boyle, Sir Edward, (1878-1945), 2nd Baronet
- Boyle, Edward Charles Gurney, (1923-1981), Baron Boyle of Handsworth
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, (1837-1915), novelist
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor, (b 1933), novelist
- Bragg, Sir William Henry, (1862-1942), Knight Physicist
- Bragg, Sir William Lawrence, (1890-1971), Knight, physicist and crystallographer
- Braine, John Gerard, (1922-1986), Author
- Brand, Barbarina, (1768-1854), Lady Dacre, poet and dramatist
- Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen, (1842-1927), Danish Literary Scholar
- Bray, John Francis, (1809-1897), Economist
- Briggs, Katherine Mary, (1898-1980), author and folklorist
- Brodetsky, Selig, (1888-1954), Mathematician and Zionist
- Bromley, William, (1664-1732), Secretary of State and Speaker of the House of Commons
- Brontë, Charlotte, (1816-1855), novelist and poet
- Brontë, Emily Jane, (1818-1848), novelist and poet
- Brooke, John Charles, (1748-1794), herald, antiquary and topographer
- Brooks, Charles William Shirley, (1816-1874), editor of Punch
- Brown, Ford Madox, (1821-1893), painter
- Brown, Reginald Francis, (1910-1985), Professor of Spanish
- Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), poet
- Buchanan, Sir George William, (1854-1924), Knight Diplomat
- Bufton, Joseph, (fl 1651-1700), Coggeshall Weaver
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, (1831-1891), 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Bulwer-Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert, (1876-1947), 2nd Earl of Lytton
- Burke, Sir John Bernard, (1814-1892), Knight, herald and genealogist
- Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley, (1836-1917), Knight Author and Journalist
- Butler, Josephine Elizabeth, (1828-1906), feminist and social reformer
- Butler, Richard Austen, (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
- Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall, (1853-1931), Knight, novelist
- Calverley, Sir Walter, (d 1749), Knight Jacobite and Clothier
- Campbell, James Dykes, (1838-1895), Biographer
- Campbell, Thomas, (1777-1844), poet
- Cardus, Sir Neville, (1889-1975), knight, journalist
- Cashman, June, (1933-2018), costume designer and maker
- Caulfield, Richard, (1823-1887), librarian and antiquary
- Causley, Charles Stanley, (1917-2003), poet, broadcaster and teacher
- Challenger, Frederick, (1887-1983), Chemist
- Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen, (1863-1937), Knight, politician
- Chapman, Alfred Chaston, (1869-1932), Chemist
- Chapman, Guy Patterson, (1889-1972), historian
- Charteris, Sir Evan Edward, (1864-1940), Knight Biographer and Barrister
- Childe, Wilfred Rowland Mary, (1890-1952), poet and critic
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, (1874-1965), Knight, prime minister and historian
- Clark, Edwin Kitson, (1866-1943), Lieutenant Colonel Engineer and Antiquary
- Clarke, Charles Cowden, (1787-1877), Author
- Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden, (1809-1898), Shakespearean scholar
- Clayton, Sir Robert, (1629-1707), Knight, MP, scrivener, Lord Mayor of London
- Clifford, Sir Hugh Charles, (1866-1941), Knight, Colonial Governor Ceylon;Gold Coast;Malaya;Nigeria;Trinidad;Roehampton, Surrey
- Clifford, Sophia Lucy, (1846-1929), novelist and playwright
- Clodd, Edward, (1840-1930), banker and author
- Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas, (1897-1967), Knight, Knight, physicist and engineer
- Cole, George Douglas Howard, (1889-1959), socialist historian and political thinker
- Collier, Carus Vale, (c 1865-1929), Anglican Clergyman and Antiquary
- Collins, Ernest Rokeby, (1870-1963), Major, geologist and archaeologist
- Colnaghi, Dominic Paul, (1790-1879), print dealer
- Colvin, Sir Sidney, (1845-1927), Knight, art and literary critic
- Conrad, Joseph, (1857-1924), master mariner and author
- Constable, Archibald, (1774-1827), publisher
- Cook, Elizabeth, (b 1952), author
- Coppard, Alfred Edgar, (1878-1957), poet and author
- Corfield, Frederick Alleyne, (fl 1914-1918), Captain Army Service Corps
- Cornish, George James, (1794-1849), Prebendary of Exeter
- Coulson, Charles Alfred, (1910-1974), Mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious writer
- Courthope, William John, (1842-1917), Civil Servant Poet and Critic
- Cox, Sir Ernest Gordon, (1906-1996), crystallographer and secretary of the Agricultural Research Council
- Crabbe, George, (1754-1832), poet
- Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa, (1867-1906), novelist and dramatist
- Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman
- Cross, Mary Ann, (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin, (b 1941), translator, children's author and poet
- Crump, William Bunting, (1868-1950), Antiquary
- Cuming, Hugh, (1791-1865), naturalist
- Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine, (1852-1936), politician and author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, (1859-1925), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, statesman
- Dalton, James, (1764-1843), Rector of Croft Naturalist
- Danell, James, (1821-1881), Bishop of Southwark
- Davidson, John, (1857-1909), poet
- Davidson, Randall Thomas, (1848-1930), Baron Davidson of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Davison, John Armstrong, (1906-1966), Classical Scholar
- Davray, Henry D, (1873-1944), Literary Scholar and Translator
- Dawson, Robert M., (b 1944), campaigner
- Day Lewis, Cecil, (1904-1972), poet
- Denny, James Runciman, (1908-1978), Composer
- Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji, (b 1896), Prime Minister of India
- Dibdin, Charles, (1745-1814), Dramatist and Songwriter
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam, (1812-1870), novelist and journalist
- Dickinson, Patric Thomas, (1914-1994), poet and playwright
- Dicksee, Sir Francis Bernard, (1853-1928), Knight Painter
- Diefenbaker, John George, (1895-1979), Prime Minister of Canada
- Dixon, Harold Baily, (1852-1930), Chemist
- Dobree, Bonamy, (1891-1974), Professor of English
- Dobson, Henry Austin, (1840-1921), Poet and Literary Biographer
- Doolittle, Hilda, (1886-1961), Poet and Novelist called H.D.
- Douglas, Sir George Brisbane, (1856-1935), 5th Baronet writer
- Douglas, Keith, (1920-1944), poet
- Dowden, Edward, (1843-1913), Professor of English Literature and critic
- Drinkwater, John, (1882-1937), playwright, poet and actor
- Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish, (1899-1982), MP Author Promoter of Commonwealth
- Duclaux, Agnes Mary Francis, (1857-1944), author
- Duncan-Sandys, Duncan Edwin , (1908-1987) Baron Duncan Sandys, politician
- Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, (b 1942), poet and critic
- Dunn, James Nicol, (1856-1919), journalist
- Durham, Mary Edith, (1863-1944), Balkan Traveller and Author
- Egan, Pierce, (1814-1880), novelist
- Elgar, Sir Edward William, (1857-1934), 1st Baronet Composer Broadheath, Worcestershire
- Elliott, Ebenezer, (1781-1849), Corn Law Rhymer
- Elton, Oliver, (1861-1945), scholar and critic
- Ervine, St John Greer, (1883-1971), playwright and novelist
- Etherton, Michael, (b1944), director
- Eurich, Friederich Wilhelm, (1867-1945), bacteriologist
- Fairfax, Charles, (1597-1673), antiquary and genealogist
- Fairfax, Ferdinando, (1584-1648), 2nd Baron Fairfax, General
- Fairfax, Henry, (1588-1665), Rector of Bolton Percy, Antiquary
- Fairfax, William, (1593-1621), soldier and poet
- Fanshawe, Sir Evelyn Dalrymple, (1895-1979), Knight Major General
- Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens, (1865-1940), historian and statesman
- Fitton, Judith Mary, (1930-2008), nurse
- Fitzgerald, Thomas, (? 1695-1752), poet and clergyman
- Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James, (1857-1923), Historian of Spanish Literature
- Fleming, John, (1785-1857), naturalist and Free Church of Scotland minister
- Frank Pearce Sturm, (1879-1942), poet and translator
- Fraser, Sir Angus McKay, (1928-2001), civil servant, author and historian Dumfriesshire
- Frazer, Sir James George, (1854-1941), Knight, social anthropologist
- Freeman, Robert Aspin, (fl 1875-1940), Linguist
- Freeman-Mitford, Algernon Bertram, (1837-1917), 1st Baron Redesdale, diplomat
- Fuller, Roy Broadbent, (b 1912), poet and author
- Furness, Horace Howard, (1833-1912), American Shakespearean scholar
- Gardiner, Alfred George, (1865-1946), Author and Journalist
- Gardner, Herbert Coulston, (1846-1921), Baron Burghclere
- Gardner, Winifred Anne Henrietta Christina, (1864-1933), Lady Burghclere, biographer
- Garnett, Richard, (1835-1906), Librarian Poet Biographer Literary Scholar
- Garstang, Walter, (1868-1949), zoologist
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, (1810-1865), novelist Chelsea, Middlesex
- Gaskill, William, (1930-2016), theatre director
- Gatty, Margaret, (1809-1873), writer and naturalist
- Geoffrey K. Fry, (fl 1966-2003), author and academic
- Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, (1878-1962), author and poet
- Gillies, Alexander, (b 1907), Professor of German
- Gissing, Algernon, (1860-1937), Novelist
- Gissing, George Robert, (1857-1903), novelist
- Goerner, Doris, (1928-2013), textile designer and academic
- Golding, Louis, (1895-1958), Novelist
- Gosse, Sir Edmund William, (1849-1928), Knight, poet, biographer and literary critic
- Gosse, Philip, (1879-1959), Author Historian
- Gosse, Philip Henry, (1810-1888), zoologist
- Gott, John, (1830-1906), Bishop of Truro
- Gott, William, (1797-1863), Leeds Philanthropist and Collector
- Gough, Charles Edward, (1874-1957), Professor of German
- Grant, Arthur James, (1862-1948), historian and professor, Leeds University
- Graves, Alfred Perceval, (1846-1931), Author and Educationist
- Graves, Robert Ranke, (1895-1985), poet and author
- Green, Alexander Henry, (1833-1896), geologist
- Green, Arthur George, (1864-1941), Chemist
- Greene, Harry Plunket, (1865-1936), Singer
- Greenfield, Julius Macdonald, (1907-1993), Rhodesian lawyer and politician
- Grenfell, Ethel Anne Priscilla, (1867-1952), Baroness Desborough
- Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, (1866-1960), Knight, Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh University
- Grigg, Edward William Macleay, (1879-1955), 1st Baron Altrincham, politician
- Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey, (1905-1985), Poet and Critic
- Grossmith, Walter Weedon, (1852-1919), Artist Actor and Author
- Gwynne, Howell Arthur, (1865-1950), journalist
- Hacking, Douglas Hewitt, (1884-1950), 1st Baron Hacking
- Haddow, Alexander John, (1912-1978), Professor of Administrative Medicine
- Haig, George Alexander Eugene Douglas, (1918-2009), 2nd Earl Haig, painter
- Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, (1862-1937), social reformer and first woman JP in Scotland
- Haldane, Richard Burdon, (1856-1928), 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor
- Hall, George, (fl 1908-1918), Reverend, parish rector and member of the Gypsy Lore Society
- Hannah, Sophie, (b 1971), author of crime fiction, poet
- Harcourt, Lewis, (1863-1922), 1st Viscount Harcourt
- Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Hare, David, (b 1947), playwright
- Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, (1865-1922), Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper proprietor
- Harraden, Beatrice, (1864-1936), novelist and suffragist
- Harrison, Anthony, (b 1937), poet, translator and playwright
- Harrison, Colin, (fl 1899), Lieutenant Royal Scots Greys
- Harrison, Frederic, (1831-1923), author and positivist
- Hartley, Sir Walter Noel, (1847-1913), Knight Chemist
- Hartree, Douglas Rayner, (1897-1958), mathematical physicist
- Harvey, Thomas Edmund, (1875-1955), Quaker MP
- Haslam, John Fearby, (d 1850), Missionary
- Hatton, Joseph, (1841-1907), Novelist and Journalist
- Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope, (1863-1933), Knight, novelist
- Hawkins, Edward, (1789-1882), Provost of Oriel College Oxford
- Hayes, Eric Charles, (1896-1951), Major General
- Hayter, Louis Henry, (1856-1953), Conservative Agent Member of London County Council
- Heath, Sir Edward Richard George, (1916-2005), Knight, Knight statesman
- Henley, William Ernest, (1849-1903), writer
- Henniker, Florence Ellen Hungerford, (1855-1923), novelist
- Heppenstall, Rayner, (1911-1981), writer
- Herkomer, Sir Hubert von, (1849-1914), Knight, German painter
- Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin, (b 1933), Baron Heseltine, MP
- Hewlett, Maurice Henry, (1861-1923), Novelist Poet and Essayist
- Hey, William, (1736-1819), Surgeon Mayor of Leeds
- Hey, William, (1772-1844), Surgeon Mayor of Leeds
- Hey, William, (1811-1882), Archdeacon of Cleveland
- Heywood, Oliver, (1630-1702), nonconformist minister, diarist and antiquary
- Hichens, Robert Smythe, (1864-1950), novelist and journalist
- Hill, Archibald Vivian, (1886-1977), MP, physiologist
- Hill, Robert, (1899-1991), biochemist
- Hinkson, Katherine, (1861-1931), poet and novelist
- Hoad, Cheryl Frances-, (b 1980), composer United Kingdom
- Holden, Angus, (1833-1912), 1st Baron Holden
- Holden, George, (1783-1865), Theologian
- Holden, Sir Isaac, (1807-1897), 1st Baronet Woollen Manufacturer MP
- Holland, Henry Thurstan, (1825-1914), 2nd Baronet and 1st Viscount Knutsford, statesman
- Holland, Lionel Raleigh, (1865-1936), MP
- Holloway, Geoffrey, (b 1918), Poet
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, (1841-1935), American Jurist
- Holt, Harold Edward, (1908-1968), Prime Minister of Australia
- Honan, Park, (b 1928), professor and biographer New York, New York;Leeds, Yorkshire
- Hood, Thomas, (1835-1874), humorist
- Hopkins, Kenneth, (1914-1988), Poet and author
- Horne, Richard Hengist, (1803-1884), author
- Hueffer, Francis, (1845-1889), Musical Critic
- Hughes, John David Ivor, (1885-1969), Professor of Law
- Hume-Rothery, William, (1899-1968), chemist and metallurgist
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh, (1784-1859), essayist and poet
- Hunt, William, (1842-1931), Historian
- Huxley, Leonard, (1860-1933), Biographer and Editor
- Huysmans, Joris Karl, (1848-1907), Novelist
- Illingworth, Alfred, (1827-1907), politician
- Jacobs, A C, (1937-1994), poet, translator
- Jacobs, William Wymark, (1863-1943), Writer
- James, Henry, (1843-1916), novelist
- Jay, Douglas Patrick Thomas, (1907-1996), Baron Jay of Battersea, politician
- Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse, (1841-1905), Knight, classical scholar historian MP educationist
- Jerome, Jerome Klapka, (1859-1927), novelist and playwright Walsall, Staffordshire
- Jerrold, Douglas William, (1803-1857), Author
- Jessopp, Augustus, (1823-1914), schoolmaster and historian
- Jill Sykes, (b 1933), author
- John, Augustus Edwin, (1878-1961), painter and etcher
- John Rizkalla, (b 1935), Anglo-Egyptian novelist Manchester, Lancashire;Egypt
- John Whetton, (1894-1979), military commander and academic
- Johnson, Lionel Pigot, (1867-1902), Poet
- Johnston, Sir Henry Hamilton, (1858-1927), Knight, explorer and colonial administrator
- Jones, Brian, (1938-2009), poet
- Jones, Harry, (1905-1986), Mathematician
- Jones, Henry Arthur, (1851-1929), dramatist
- Jones, John Harry, (1881-1973), Economist
- Jones, Samuel, (? 1680-1719), Nonconformist Tutor
- Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules, (1855-1932), French Author and Diplomat
- Keats, John, (1795-1821), poet
- Kendall, Percy Fry, (1856-1936), Geologist
- Kenrick, Donald, (1929-2015), linguist, educator, researcher and author
- Ker, William Paton, (1855-1923), literary scholar India;China
- Kernahan, John Coulson, (1858-1943), writer
- Kingsley, Charles, (1819-1875), Canon of Westminster author
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Kirkup, James, (b 1923), Poet Novelist Playwright Broadcaster
- Kitching, John, (1771-1864), Quaker
- Knight, George Richard Wilson, (1897-1985), Professor of English
- Knight, William Francis Jackson, (1895-1964), Classical scholar
- Knowles, James Sheridan, (1784-1862), dramatist
- Kramer, Jacob, (1892-1962), Painter
- Kyle, John Torrens, (1814-1883), Rector of Clondrohid Antiquary
- Lamb, Lady Caroline, (1785-1828), novelist
- Lamb, Charles, (1775-1834), essayist and humorist
- Landor, Walter Savage, (1775-1864), author
- Lang, Andrew, (1844-1912), anthropologist, classicist and historian
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, (1847-1929), Knight, zoologist
- Larkin, Philip Arthur, (1922-1985), poet
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas, (1769-1830), Knight, painter
- Lay, Cecil Howard, (1885-1956), Architect and Poet
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, (1814-1873), Novelist and Journalist
- Le Gallienne, Richard Thomas, (1866-1947), poet and essayist
- Le Patourel, John Herbert, (1909-1981), historian
- Leavis, Frank Raymond, (1895-1978), Literary Critic Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Lee, Hermione, (b 1948), writer, academic and journalist
- Legge-Bourke, Sir Edward Alexander Henry, (1914-1973), Knight, MP for the Isle of Ely
- Legh, Thomas Wodehouse, (1857-1942), 2nd Baron Newton, politician
- Lennox-Boyd, Alan Tindal, (1904-1983), 1st Viscount Boyd, politician
- Lepage, Albert, (b 1895), Poet and Dramatist
- Lewes, Vivian Byam, (fl 1895), Chemist
- Liddell, Guy Maynard, (1892-1958), intelligence officer
- Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, (1871-1940), 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, politician
- Lindsay, Jack, (1900-1990), Author
- Lipman, Andy, (1952-1997), television producer and writer
- Lister, Thomas, (1876-1925), 4th Baron Ribblesdale
- Livingstone, Hugh, (fl 1914-1918), Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
- Lomas, Herbert, (1924-2011), poet
- Longley, Charles Thomas, (1794-1868), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen, (1903-1971), Chemist and Crystallographer
- Louis Aime Augustin le Prince, (1841-1890), inventor France
- Low, Sir Sidney James Mark, (1857-1932), Knight Author Historian and Journalist
- Lubbock, Percy, (1879-1965), Essayist and Critic
- Lucas, Edward Verrall, (1868-1938), author and publisher
- Luttrell, Narcissus, (1657-1732), Diarist Bibliographer and Antiquary
- Lyttelton, George, (1709-1773), 1st Baron Lyttelton, statesman
- Maartens, Maarten, (1858-1915), Dutch Novelist
- Mackendrick, John, (1946-1979), Author
- Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Compton, (1883-1972), Knight, writer
- Macmurray, John, (1891-1976), philosopher
- Marsh, Sir Edward Howard, (1872-1953), Knight, public servant and patron of the arts
- Marshall, John, (1765-1845), MP for Yorkshire Flax Spinner
- Marten, Henry, (1602-1680), Regicide
- Masefield, John Edward, (1878-1967), poet
- Mattison, Alfred, (1868-1944), socialist, historian of Leeds
- Maude, Aylmer, (1858-1938), author and translator
- Max Isserlin, (1879-1941), neurologist
- Maxse, Sir Frederick Ivor, (1862-1958), Knight General
- Maxse, Leopold James, (1864-1932), journalist and author
- May, John, (1775-1856), First Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police
- Mayer, Gerda Kamilla, (1927-2021), poet and writer
- McCarthy, Justin, (1830-1912), Politician Historian and Novelist
- McFall, Frances Elizabeth Bellenden, (1854-1943), novelist
- McLeod, James Walter, (1887-1978), bacteriologist
- Megroz, Rodolphe Louis, (1891-1968), Literary Journalist
- Meiklejohn, Sir Roderick Sinclair, (1876-1962), Knight Civil Servant
- Melvyn Bragg, (b 1939), Rt Hon Lord, broadcaster, writer and parliamentarian
- Mende, Cyril, (1862-1951), Theatre Manager
- Meredith, George Patrick, (1904-1978), psychophysicist
- Meynell, Alice Christiana Gertrude, (1847-1922), poet, suffragist and critic Barnes, Surrey
- Meynell, Wilfrid, (1852-1948), journalist and biographer
- Mill, John Stuart, (1806-1873), philosopher, MP
- Milne, Alan Alexander, (1882-1956), author, poet and playwright Kilburn, Middlesex
- Mitchison, Naomi Margaret, (1897-1999), Baroness Mitchison, writer and social activist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Moody, John Percivale, (1906-1993), Actor, Director and Designer
- Moody, Nell, (1909-1999), soprano
- Moore, George Augustus, (1852-1933), Author
- Moorman, Frederic William, (1872-1919), Professor of English Language
- Moraes, Dom, (b 1938), Poet and Author
- Morison, James Augustus Cotter, (1832-1888), Historian Author
- Morley, Sir John, (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Morpurgo, Jack Eric, (1918-2000), Professor of American Literature
- Morris, William, (1834-1896), poet artist and socialist Walthamstow, Essex
- Mortimer, Russell Stanley, (1914-2004), librarian
- Mott, Sir Nevill Francis, (1905-1996), Knight and physicist
- Moult, Thomas, (1893-1974), Poet Novelist and Critic
- Moynihan, Berkeley George Andrew, (1865-1936), 1st Baron Moynihan, surgeon
- Munnings, Sir Alfred James, (1878-1959), Knight Painter
- Murdoch, Dame Jean Iris, (1919-1999), novelist and philosopher
- Murray, Andrew Graham, (1849-1942), 1st Viscount Dunedin, judge
- Muspratt, James, (1793-1886), founder of alkali industry in Lancashire
- Myers, Frederic William Henry, (1843-1901), psychical researcher, schools inspector and author
- Napier, Mabel Edith Geraldine, (1870-1955), wife of Sir William Lennox Napier
- Nash, Sir Walter, (1882-1968), Knight Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Neave, Airey Middleton Sheffield, (1916-1979), MP, author
- Needham, John Turberville, (1713-1781), Roman Catholic Priest Scientist
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, (1889-1964), Indian statesman
- Nevill, Lady Dorothy Fanny, (1826-1913), hostess, horticulturist and memoir writer
- Nevinson, Henry Wood, (1856-1941), Essayist Philanthropist Journalist
- Newbolt, Sir Henry John, (1862-1938), Knight, poet and author
- Newton, John, (1725-1807), sailor, Anglican clergyman, hymn-writer and poet
- Nichols, Robert Malise Bowyer, (1893-1944), poet Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Nicholson, Brinsley, (1824-1892), scholar
- Norman McKay, Elizabeth, (b 1931), musicologist and pianist
- Norris, William Edward, (d 1925), Novelist
- North, Elizabeth, (d 2010), novelist and lecturer
- Novello, Clara Anastasia, (1818-1908), soprano
- Novello, John Alfred, (1810-1896), musical publisher and bass singer
- Novello, Vincent, (1781-1861), organist, composer and publisher
- Noyes, Alfred, (1880-1958), Poet
- Nye, Robert, (1939-2016), poet and novelist
- Oakley, Cyril Leslie, (1907-1975), Bacteriologist
- Offor, Richard, (1882-1964), Librarian to Leeds University
- Ogden, James Roberts, (1865-1940), Historian
- Ogilvy, Henrietta Blanche, (1830-1921), Countess of Airlie
- Oliver, William, (fl 1927-1990), deputy editor and art critic Yorkshire and the Humber
- Ollier, Edmund, (1827-1886), Author
- Onon, Urgunge, (b c1919), academic
- Onslow, William Hillier, (1853-1911), 4th Earl of Onslow
- Opie, Amelia, (1769-1853), novelist and poet
- Osers, Ewald, (b 1917), Translator and Writer
- O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar, (1844-1881), poet and herpetologist
- Pain, Barry Eric Odell, (1864-1928), Humorist
- Palmer, Herbert Edward, (1880-1961), poet and literary critic
- Parker, Sir Horatio Gilbert George, (1863-1932), Knight, author and politician
- Parrott, Sir Cecil Cuthbert, (1909-1984), Knight Central European Scholar
- Parry, Sir (Frederick) Sydney, (1861-1941), Knight, civil servant
- Pater, Walter Horatio, (1839-1894), critic and humanist
- Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, (1823-1896), poet
- Peacock, Edward Eden, (1850-1909), Journalist
- Peacock, Henry, (fl 1909-1924), Manager of the Morning Post
- Pearson, William, (1662-1716), Archdeacon of Nottingham Subdean of York
- Peers, Edgar Allison, (1891-1952), Professor of Spanish
- Peliza, Sir Robert John, (b 1920), Chief Minister of Gibraltar
- Pember, Edward Henry, (1833-1911), Lawyer Poet
- Pemberton, Sir Max, (1863-1950), Knight Author
- Perris, George Herbert, (1866-1920), writer and speaker on international affairs
- Pesel, Louisa Frances, (d 1947), Writer On Embroidery and Gardening
- Phillips, Dorothy Una, (1891-1967), poet and dramatist
- Phillips, Geoffrey Francis, (1880-1968), Colonel
- Phillpotts, Eden, (1862-1960), writer
- Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, (1855-1934), Knight playwright
- Pope, Alexander, (1688-1744), poet
- Postlethwayte, Jacob, (fl 1731), student Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Powell, Anthony Dymoke, (1905-2000), novelist
- Powys, John Cowper, (1872-1963), novelist and writer
- Preston, Kerrison, (1884-1974), Writer
- Price, Langford Lovell Frederick Rice, (1862-1950), economic historian
- Pringle, Thomas, (1789-1834), poet, secretary to the Anti Slavery Society
- Prothero, Sir George Walter, (1848-1922), Knight, historian
- Pryme, George, (1781-1868), MP Political Economist
- Pulleyn, Thomas, (1701-1759), Antiquary
- Purvis, John Stanley, (1890-1968), Canon of York, archivist
- Pusey, Edward Bouverie, (1800-1882), Canon of Christ Church Oxford; theologian and scholar
- Pybus, Rodney, (b 1938), poet Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland;Sudbury, Suffolk
- Pyrah, Leslie Norman, (1899-1995), urologist and surgeon
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, (1863-1944), Knight, novelist and literary scholar
- Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander, (1861-1922), Knight, critic and essayist
- Ramsay, Sir Malcolm Graham, (1871-1946), Knight, Treasury official
- Ramsay, Sir William, (1852-1916), Knight, chemist
- Ramsden, Sir Arthur Maxwell, (fl 1914-1945), Knight Brigadier
- Ransome, Arthur, (1884-1967), Author and Journalist
- Ratcliffe, Bertram Louis, (1893-1992), soldier and businessman
- Read, Sir Herbert, (1893-1968), Knight, art critic, author and anarchist
- Redgrove, Peter William, (b 1932), poet
- Reed, Jeremy, (b 1951), writer and poet
- Reeves, Rachel , (b1979), British Labour Party politician and author
- Rhys, Ernest Percival, (1859-1946), author and editor
- Richardson, John Henry, (1890-1970), economist
- Richter, Hans, (1843-1916), German Conductor
- Riddell, Alan, (1927-1977), poet
- Ridge, William Pett, (1857-1930), Writer
- Ritchie, Anne Isabella, (1837-1919), novelist and biographer
- Roberts, Morley, (1857-1942), Writer
- Robson, Isaac, (1800-1885), Quaker Minister
- Rolfe, Frederick William, (1860-1913), author as Baron Corvo
- Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield, (1833-1915), Knight, chemist
- Ross, Alan, (b 1922), Writer
- Ross, Robert Baldwin, (1869-1918), journalist and editor
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina, (1830-1894), poet
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, (1828-1882), painter and poet
- Rossetti, William Michael, (1829-1919), man of letters and art critic
- Roth, Cecil, (1899-1970), Historian
- Rothenstein, Sir William, (1872-1945), Knight, painter
- Rotimi, Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel, (1938-2000), playwright and theatre director
- Rowland, Antony, (b1970), poet and professor of literary studies Leeds, Yorkshire;Salford, Lancashire
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russel, Alexander, (1814-1876), editor of the Scotsman
- Russell, He, (fl 1940-1941), Brigadier Ghq
- Russell, Lady Margaret, (1874-1957), Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary
- Russell, Sir Ronald Stanley, (1904-1974), Knight MP
- Sabey, Barbara, (d 2013), road safety scientist
- Sackville, Lady Margaret, (1881-1963), author
- Sadleir, Michael Thomas Harvey, (1888-1957), Author and Publisher
- Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest, (1861-1943), Knight Educational Pioneer and Art Patron
- Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, (1845-1933), literary critic and historian
- Sala, George Augustus Henry, (1828-1896), Journalist
- Sanderson, Thomas Henry, (1841-1923), 1st Baron Sanderson, civil servant
- Sansom, William, (1912-1976), Author
- Sargent, John Singer, (1856-1925), painter
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, (1886-1967), poet and author
- Saunders-Dundas, Robert, (1771-1851), 2nd Viscount Melville, statesman
- Scattergood, Thomas, (1826-1900), Surgeon Genealogist
- Schuddekopf, Albert Wilhelm, (1861-1916), Professor of German
- Scott, Sir Walter, (1771-1832), 1st Baronet, poet and novelist
- Scott, William Bell, (1811-1890), poet and painter
- Seaman, Sir Owen, (1861-1936), Baronet Editor
- Searle, Charles Edward, (1828-1902), Master of Pembroke College, author
- Selby, Sir Walford Harmood Montague, (1881-1965), Knight, civil servant and diplomat
- Sharp, William, (1855-1905), author and poet
- Shaw-Lefevre, George John, (1831-1928), Baron Eversley, statesman
- Sheepshanks, John, (1787-1863), Art Collector
- Sheppard, Thomas, (1876-1943), Museum Director, geologist, archaeologist and historian
- Shields, Frederick James, (1833-1911), Painter
- Shimmin, Arnold Nixon, (1889-1961), economist
- Shorter, Clement King, (1857-1926), journalist and critic
- Shorthouse, Joseph Henry, (1834-1903), Novelist
- Silkin, Jon, (1930-1997), poet
- Simpson, Esther, (1903-1996), refugee co-ordinator, Secretary Society for the Protection of Science and Learning Leeds, Yorkshire;London
- Sims, George Robert, (1847-1922), journalist and dramatist
- Sinclair, May, (1863-1946), Author, Suffragist and Critic
- Singer, Sir Morgan, (1864-1938), Knight Admiral
- Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, (1856-1947), journalist and writer
- Smallwood, Norah, (1909-1984), publisher
- Smith, Jenny, (b 1948), Labour councillor and campaigner Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Smith, John, (c 1766-1826), Vicar of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Smith, Ken, (1938-2003), poet Rudston, Yorkshire;Leeds, Yorkshire;United States of America;London
- Smith, William Robertson, (1846-1894), theologian and semitic scholar
- Smithells, Arthur, (1860-1939), Chemist
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Sowerby, James, (1757-1822), naturalist
- Sowerby, James de Carle, (1787-1871), naturalist and artist
- Spence, Robert, (1905-1976), chemist
- Spencer, Charles Robert, (1857-1922), 6th Earl Spencer
- Spender, Sir Stephen Harold, (1909-1995), Knight, poet
- Squire, Hilda M A L, (1898-1991), family historian
- Squire, Sir John Collings, (1884-1958), Knight, writer and journalist
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, (1852-1924), Knight composer and conductor
- Stanhope, John Spencer, (1787-1873), landowner and scholar
- Stanhope, Walter Spencer, (1749-1822), MP
- Stanhope, Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer, (1827-1911), Knight Politician
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence, (1833-1908), Poet and Critic
- Stephen, Sir Leslie, (1832-1904), Knight, man of letters, philosopher, biographer, mountaineer
- Stern, James, (1904-1993), writer and translator
- Stewart, John Innes Mackintosh, (1906-1994), critic and novelist
- Stockton, Francis Richard, (1834-1902), American author and editor
- Stoker, Abraham, (1847-1912), novelist and theatre manager
- Stoner, Edmund Clifton, (1899-1968), physicist
- Strachey, Giles Lytton, (1880-1932), Critic and Biographer
- Stuart, Dorothy Margaret, (1889-1963), author
- Sucksmith, William, (fl 1930-1977), Physicist
- Sutton-Pratt, Reginald, (1898-1962), Brigadier
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, (1837-1909), poet
- Symonds, John Addington, (1840-1893), poet, historian and translator
- Symons, Arthur William, (1865-1945), editor, critic and poet
- Symons, Julian Gustave, (1912-1994), Author
- Teale, Thomas Pridgin, (1831-1923), Surgeon
- Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1811-1863), novelist
- Thirkell, Angela Margaret, (1890-1961), novelist
- Thompson, Charles William, (1815-1896), soldier
- Thompson, Edith Perronet, (1848-1929), historian
- Thompson, Herbert, (1856-1945), music and art critic of "the Yorkshire Post"
- Thompson, John Wycliffe, (1824-1895), soldier
- Thompson, Sylvia, (fl 1994-2011) Leeds, Yorkshire
- Thompson, Thomas Perronet, (1783-1869), General, Colonial Governor, politician, economist
- Thompson, Thomas Perronet Edward, (d 1904), Lancashire JP
- Thompson, Thomas William, (1888-1968), folklorist
- Thompson, William Hepworth, (1810-1886), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Thornycroft, Sir William Hamo, (1850-1925), Knight, sculptor
- Thorpe, Sir Thomas Edward, (1845-1925), Knight Chemist
- Thuillier, Sir Henry Fleetwood, (1868-1953), Knight Major General
- Thwaite, Ann Barbara, (b 1932), writer
- Thwaite, Anthony Simon, (b 1930), writer and poet Chester, Cheshire
- Todd, Ruthven Campbell, (1914-1978), writer and poet
- Todhunter, John, (1839-1916), Author and Playwright
- Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, (1892-1973), Philologist and Author
- Tomlinson, Alfred Charles, (1927-2015), Poet and Lecturer
- Tony Lynes, (1929-2014), writer and social campaigner
- Townhill, Richard Leslie, (1896-1970), translator Bradford, Yorkshire
- Townshend, Thomas, (1733-1800), 1st Viscount Sydney, statesman
- Traill, Henry Duff, (1842-1900), Editor and Journalist
- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, (1852-1917), Knight, actor manager
- Trench, Frederic Herbert, (1865-1923), poet
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet Statesman and Historian
- Trevelyan, Robert Calverley, (1872-1951), Poet and Dramatist
- Treves, Sir Frederick, (1853-1923), Knight Surgeon
- Trumbull, Sir William, (1639-1716), Knight, Secretary of State
- Tuke, Samuel, (1784-1857), Philanthropist
- Tupper, John Lucas, (d 1879), Artist
- Turberville, Arthur Stanley, (1888-1945), historian
- Turner, George Grey, (1877-1951), Professor of Surgery
- Turner, John R G, (fl 1980-2006), academic
- Tyrell, Patricia, (b1929), novelist Norfolk;Cornwall
- Upward, Edward Falaise, (1903-2009), Author
- Vaizey, John Ernest, (1929-1984), Baron Vaizey, economist
- Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart Henry, (1878-1949), 7th Marquess of Londonderry, politician
- Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Theresa Susey Helen, (1856-1919), Marchioness of Londonderry
- Vansittart, Peter, (1920-2008), Author
- Verrall, Arthur Woollgar, (1851-1912), classical scholar
- Vincent, Sir Harold Graham, (1891-1981), Knight, civil servant
- Vines, Sydney Howard, (1849-1934), botanist
- Wade, Douglas Ashton Lofft, (1898-1996), Major General
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer Ripley, Derbyshire
- Ward, Mary Augusta, (1851-1920), novelist and social worker Hobart, Tasmania;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Ware, Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone, (1869-1949), Knight, editor, and War Graves Commissioner
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend, (1893-1978), novelist and poet
- Warren, John Byrne Leicester, (1835-1895), 3rd Baron De Tabley, poet
- Warton, Thomas, (1688-1745), Professor of Poetry
- Waterman, Dame Fanny, (b 1920), piano teacher
- Watson, Francis Leslie, (1907-1988), art critic and author
- Watson, Sir John William, (1858-1935), Knight Poet
- Watts, George Frederic, (1817-1904), painter and sculptor
- Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore, (1832-1914), critic novelist and poet
- Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John, (1903-1966), novelist
- Wedmore, Sir Frederick, (1844-1921), Knight Author and Literary Critic
- Wells, Herbert George, (1866-1946), novelist
- Wentworth, Godfrey, (1704-1789), MP
- West, Tuffen, (1823-1891), botanist
- Weyman, Stanley John, (1855-1928), novelist
- Wharton, Edith Newbold, (1862-1937), American author
- Wheatley, Dennis Yates, (1897-1977), novelist
- Whibley, Charles, (1859-1930), Journalist and Critic
- Whiddington, Richard, (1885-1970), physicist
- Wildman-Lushington, Godfrey Edward, (1897-1970), Major General
- Wilkinson, Henry Spenser, (1853-1937), military historian and journalist
- Williams, Sir Herbert Geraint, (1884-1954), 1st Baronet MP
- Williams, Hugo, (b 1942), author
- Williams, Iolo Aneurin, (1890-1962), writer
- Williams, John Lloyd, (1885-1940), engineer
- Wills, William Gorman, (1828-1891), Irish Playwright
- Willson, Maurice Frank Campbell, (fl 1915-1918), Army Captain
- Wilson, Harold Albert, (1874-1964), Physicist
- Wilson, James Harold, (1916-1995), Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, statesman
- Wilson, John, (1719-1783), Antiquary
- Wilson, John, (1785-1854), author as Christopher North
- Wilson, Sir Mathew, (1802-1891), 1st Baronet MP
- Wilson, Thomas, (1713-1789), Yorkshire Antiquary
- Wingfield, Lewis Strange, (1842-1891), traveller, actor, writer and poet
- Wise, Thomas James, (1859-1937), Bibliographer Book Collector Forger
- Wole Soyinka, (b1934), playwright and poet Nigeria
- Wolfe, Humbert, (1886-1940), poet and civil servant
- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, (1833-1913), 1st Viscount Wolseley, Field Marshal
- Wolseley, Louisa, (1843-1920), Dowager Viscountess Wolseley
- Wood, Butler, (1854-1934), Bronte Scholar
- Wood, Charles Lindley, (1839-1934), 2nd Viscount Halifax
- Woolf, Leonard Sidney, (1880-1969), editor, author and civil servant
- Woolner, Thomas, (1825-1892), sculptor and poet
- Wright, Ichabod Charles, (1795-1871), translator
- Wright, William Aldis, (1831-1914), Shakespearean and biblical scholar
- Yates, Edmund Hodgson, (1831-1894), Novelist
- Yeats, Jack Butler, (1871-1957), author and illustrator
- Yeats, William Butler, (1865-1939), poet and playwright
- Young, Sydney, (1857-1937), Chemist
- Zangwill, Israel, (1864-1926), Author and Philanthropist
Diaries (63)
- Alexander, K, (fl 1914-1918), diarist
- Armstrong, Olive, (fl 1915-1918) Dublin, County Dublin
- Baxter, B W, Army Medical Service
- Beavon, Harold, Conscientious Objector
- Begg, Richard Campbell, Lieutenant, Royal Navy Leeds, Yorkshire
- Bellerby, Percy, Soldier
- Bruet, Yvonne, (fl 1914-1919), diarist Bordeaux, France
- Cale, Annie, Governess Russia
- Campbell, Stuart, (fl 1943), Lance Bombardier, Royal Artillery
- Cave, Ac, (1914-18), Quartermaster, 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
- Churchill, A, Lieutenant Military Police Leeds, Yorkshire
- Clarke, Arthur, (fl 1914-1918), submariner
- Cockayne, Dame Elizabeth, Nurse
- Collins, W W, (fl 1914-1918), Able Seaman Lancashire;Lancashire
- Corbett, Dame Margery, Ashby Suffragist
- Cossons, Robin, (fl1917), Royal Army Medical Corps
- Evans, Reginald, (fl 1915-1919), soldier France;Russia
- Felsberg, Lucy Russia
- Ferguson, James Scott-, (fl 1917-1918), lieutenant, 4th Battalion Seaforths
- Foucar, (1939-45), Lt-colonel
- Fry, John, (fl 1779) Melksham, Wiltshire
- Garnett, James, (fl 1914-1919), pilot, Royal Flying Corps
- Godfrey, G, Captain Royal Army Medical Corps Leeds, Yorkshire
- Gresham, T B, (fl 1914-18), Soldier, 6th Battalion Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Harrison, W G, (fl 1945), sergeant, Cheshire Yeomanry
- Hart, H V, (fl 1917), Soldier, 6th Battlion Yorks Regiment France
- Harwood, B T, (1944), Airman, Raf
- James, M M, (fl 1914-1916), nurse, Territorial Nursing Force
- Kearns, C F, (1919), Lieutenant In Canadian Air Force Canada
- Langstadt, Erich, (fl1953)
- Lucas, J R, (1914-16), Csm, 6th London Regiment London
- Macleod, E Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Macleod, E A, Student Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Martin, Stanley, (fl1955-2004) Leeds, Yorkshire
- McCaw, Dick, (fl c2013), dance researcher
- Milburn, G, Nurse With British Red Cross
- Mortimer, Roger Frederick, (fl 1940-1945), Captain, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
- Newell, T J, (1914-1915), Driver, Army Service Corps
- Olley, Gordon, (fl 1914-1918), Member of Royal Flying Corps
- Parker, H, Soldier
- Parker, M, British Red Cross Driver France
- Pearson, Christopher, Naval Surgeon
- Pearson, Mary Anne, (1853-1943) Algiers, Algeria;Liverpool, Lancashire
- Pilton, James W, (fl 1939-1945), leading aircraftman
- Pressley, J S, Soldier
- Reid, Margaret Grant, (fl 1938-1973) Oslo, Norway
- Rose, Walter James, (fl 1914-1918), soldier, 1/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
- Salisbury, Frank, Seviceman Leeds, Yorkshire
- Salisbury, Norman, Serviceman Leeds, Yorkshire
- Salisbury, Pat, Serviceman Leeds, Yorkshire
- Salisbury, Robin Leeds, Yorkshire
- Severn, Horace, (fl1915-16), Private, Dli
- Smith, Dorothy, (fl 1914-1920), VAD nurse Germany;Turkey
- Stedman, Lady Olive
- Tateson, John, (b1792), tailor Selby, Yorkshire
- Thurstan, Violet, Nurse Russia
- Titmuss, Cd, (fl1917), Rfn, 15th London Regiment London
- Tomlinson, John, (d1916), Private
- Tulloch, John, (d1946), Gunner, Royal Artillery
- Walker, Bernard Eyre Leeds, Yorkshire
- Wharton, Rowland, (b1892), Private Grimsby, Lincolnshire
- White, Sybil, (fl1916-1918), diarist
- Youhill, Joseph, (1915), Soldier, Army Ordnance Corps
Families (17)
- Bathurst family, Earls Bathurst Cirencester, Gloucestershire;Oakley Park, Gloucestershire;Hothorpe, Northamptonshire
- Bowes family of Streatlam Castle Streatlam and Stainton, Durham;Wemmergill, Yorkshire
- Boyle family, baronets, of Ockham Ockham, Sussex
- Currer and Richardson-Currer family of Kildwick Kildwick, Yorkshire
- Ford family of Leeds Leeds, Kent
- Gott family of Armley Armley, Yorkshire
- Lister family of Frizinghall Frizinghall, Yorkshire
- Loder-Symonds family of Hinton Manor Hinton Manor, Berkshire
- Luttrell family of Chelsea Chelsea, Middlesex
- Osborne family, Dukes of Leeds Baylies, Buckinghamshire;Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire;Quainton, Buckinghamshire;Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire;Wexham, Buckinghamshire;Wingrave, Buckinghamshire;Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire;Stapleford, Cambridgeshire;Godolphin, Cornwall;Helford, Cornwall;Helston, Cornwall;Penrhyn, Cornwall;Penventon, Cornwall;Parsloes, Essex;Aldbury, Hertfordshire;North Mimms, Hertfordshire;Tring, Hertfordshire;London;Holborn, Middlesex;Syon Hill, Middlesex;Westminster, Middlesex;East Dereham, Norfolk;Kingston, Nottinghamshire;Abertanat, Shropshire;Newmarket, Suffolk;Wimbledon, Surrey;Barnsley, Yorkshire;Conisbrough, Yorkshire;Harthill with Woodall, Yorkshire;Hornby, Yorkshire;Kiveton Park, Yorkshire;Lindrick, Yorkshire;North Anston, Yorkshire;Seamer in Pickering Lythe Wapentake, Yorkshire;South Anston, Yorkshire;Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire;Todwick, Yorkshire;Wakefield, Yorkshire;Wales, Yorkshire;Tanyllwyn, Denbighshire;Broniarth, Montgomeryshire;Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire;Invereshie, Inverness-shire;Scilly Isles
- Paget family, baronets, of Cranmore Cranmore Hall, Somerset;East Cranmore, Somerset;Doulting, Somerset;Newberry, Somerset;Oldfallings, Staffordshire;Wednesfield, Staffordshire;Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
- Perronet-Thompson family
- Spencer-Stanhope family of Cannon Hall Cannon Hall, Yorkshire
- Trumbull family of Easthampstead Easthampstead, Berkshire;Beenham, Berkshire;Binfield, Berkshire;Great Shefford, Berkshire;Tilehurst, Berkshire;Wokingham, Berkshire;Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire;Ickford, Buckinghamshire;Egham, Surrey;East Harlsey, Yorkshire;Dundrum, County Down;Edenderry, County Offaly
- Wentworth family of Woolley Woolley, Yorkshire
- Wilson family of Broomhead Broomhead, Yorkshire
- Wilson family, baronets, of Eshton Hall Eshton, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (79)
- NRA 16072 William Ackroyd Ltd, worsted spinners, Otley link to online catalogue
- NRA 16073 Airedale Mill Co Ltd, commission scribblers and spinners, Leeds link to online catalogue
- NRA 16074 Jeremiah Ambler & Sons Ltd, combers, spinners and weavers, Bradford link to online catalogue
- NRA 19812 Sir Linton Andrews, editor of the Yorkshire Post: corresp and papers
- NRA 10085 Thomas Arnold family letters and papers
- NRA 34704 Association for Science Education link to online catalogue
- NRA 27774 Association for Technical Education in Schools link to online catalogue
- NRA 30604 Association of Education Committees
- NRA 19429 William Thomas Astbury, physicist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 16071 John Bancroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners, Keighley link to online catalogue
- NRA 26506 Frank Beckwith, librarian: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 16069 T Berry (Bradford) Ltd, wool and waste dealers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20284 Jethro Bithell, German scholar: corresp and papers
- NRA 32464 Blackburn, Tolson & Co Ltd, woollen mfrs, Heckmondwike
- NRA 16070 Henry Booth & Sons Ltd, cloth mfrs, Gildersome link to online catalogue
- NRA 35050 Algernon Borthwick, Baron Glenesk and Bathurst family, Earls Bathurst: corresp and papers incl reco link to online catalogue
- NRA 34054 John Bowling & Co Ltd, ironfounders, Leeds
- NRA 30282 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth: corresp and papers
- NRA 18524 HL Bradfer-Lawrence MSS
- NRA 5982 Henry Briggs Son & Co Ltd, colliery owners, Wakefield
- NRA 16434 Sir Walter Calverley: corresp rel to Broadcloth Acts link to online catalogue
- NRA 16066 W & J Clarkson Ltd, cloth mfrs, Pudsey link to online catalogue
- NRA 15623 JT Clay & Sons Ltd, woollen mfrs, Rastrick link to online catalogue
- NRA 16067 Robert Clough (Keighley) Ltd, worsted spinners link to online catalogue
- NRA 16068 Samuel Cockcroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners, Bradford link to online catalogue
- NRA 23122 John Armstrong Davison, professor of Greek: corresp and papers
- NRA 21074 Bonamy Dobree, professor of English literature: corresp and papers
- NRA 27395 Henry Drummond-Wolff, promoter of Commonwealth development: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 16437 E Fox & Sons Ltd, shoddy and mungo merchants, Dewsbury link to online catalogue
- NRA 28257 Eugen Glueckauf: papers rel to Robert Spence, chemist
- NRA 9840 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer and poet: corresp
- NRA 16435 Gott family of Armley: family papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 26802 William Hanson & Co Ltd, cotton spinners, Halifax link to online catalogue
- NRA 33159 Harrogate Londesboro' Working Men's Club
- NRA 20688 Louis Henry Hayter, politician: corresp
- NRA 33160 Hey family of Leeds: corresp
- NRA 16436 Thomas Hield & Sons Ltd, yarn merchants, Dewsbury link to online catalogue
- NRA 22573 John David Ivor Hughes, professor of law: papers
- NRA 32465 Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co Ltd, loom mfrs, Dobcross
- NRA 25232 Henry Illingworth, woollen mfr: corresp and papers on the French textile industry link to online catalogue
- NRA 24112 John Harry Jones, professor of economics: notes and papers
- NRA 24897 Percy Fry Kendall, geologist: corresp
- NRA 18528 Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds
- NRA 21000 Leeds Academic Assistance Committee
- NRA 22572 Leeds General Cemetery Co Ltd
- NRA 19811 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
- NRA 17118 Leeds Society of Friends
- NRA 27772 Leeds University: Brotherton Library misc accessions
- NRA 25809 Leeds University: Brotherton Library MS collections
- NRA 23121 Leeds White Cloth Hall link to online catalogue
- NRA 28359 Leeds: Queen Square and Park Square galleries
- NRA 30441 Sir Edward Alexander Henry (Harry) Legge-Bourke, MP: corresp and papers
- NRA 18164 Edward Longbottom, dyer, Batley link to online catalogue
- NRA 30993 Marshall & Co, flax spinners, Leeds link to online catalogue
- NRA 24714 Aylmer Maude, author and translator: corresp
- NRA 30440 John Stuart Mill, philosopher: letters
- NRA 26287 National Union of Teachers: Leeds association
- NRA 10657 Novello-Cowden Clarke collection
- NRA 26618 Cyril Leslie Oakley, bacteriologist: corresp and papers
- NRA 32929 Pearson family of Mountcross: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 30283 Edgar Allison Peers, professor of Spanish: corresp and papers
- NRA 7213 Ripon: dean and chapter
- NRA 25859 Cecil Roth, historian: corresp and papers rel to the Jewish community at Salonika
- NRA 35202 Esther Simpson, secretary of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning: corresp and pa
- NRA 20283 Arthur Smithells, professor of chemistry: corresp and papers
- NRA 32456 Society for the Study of Theology
- NRA 17735 Professor Edmund Clifton Stoner, physicist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19566 Herbert Thompson, music critic: corresp and papers
- NRA 15923 Thomas Perronet Thompson, General and politician: family and political corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24325 Ruthven Todd, writer: corresp and papers rel to William Blake
- NRA 15924 Wentworth family of Woolley: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 1099 West Yorkshire business records
- NRA 17624 Richard Whiddington, physicist: notebooks and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 27773 John Lloyd Williams, engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 21696 Wilson family, baronets, of Eshton Hall: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11144 John Wilson of Broomhead: Yorkshire collection
- NRA 3993 John Wilson: Yorkshire antiquarian collection
- NRA 29651 Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting
- NRA 32457 Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society
Accessions
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