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Businesses (6)
- Henry Rawling, mercer London
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, publishers London
- JB Nichols & Sons, printers and publishers London
- Robert Fox and John Martyn, innkeepers Canterbury, Kent
- Samuel Oldknow & Co, cotton spinners and weavers Mellor, Lancashire
- Sir Richard Arkwright & Co Ltd, cotton spinners Cromford, Derbyshire;Manchester, Lancashire;Bakewell, Derbyshire
Organisations (1)
- Winster parish Winster, Derbyshire
Persons (133)
- Allen, George, (1832-1907), Engraver and Publisher
- Angell, Sir Ralph Norman, (1874-1967), Knight, peace campaigner and author
- Arkwright, Sir Richard, (1732-1792), Knight, engineer
- Ashley, Sir William James, (1860-1927), Knight, economic historian
- Auden, Wystan Hugh, (1907-1973), poet York, Yorkshire
- Austin, Alfred, (1835-1913), Poet Laureate and journalist
- Bagnold, Enid Algerine, (1889-1981), author and playwright
- Bark, Sir Peter, (1869-1937), Knight Russian Emigre and Banker
- Barker, Edmund Henry, (1788-1839), Classical Scholar
- Barker, George Granville, (1913-1991), poet
- Bastable, Charles Francis, (1855-1945), economist
- Beckett, Samuel Barclay, (1906-1989), author, playwright and poet Dublin, County Dublin
- Belasyse, Sir Henry, (1555-1624), 1st Baronet MP
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold, (1867-1931), novelist playwright and journalist
- Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor, (1894-1977), novelist
- Blackwell, Elizabeth, (1821-1910), physician
- Blunden, Edmund Charles, (1896-1974), poet
- Bowyer, William, (1699-1777), Printer
- Bray, John Francis, (1809-1897), Economist
- Campbell, Colin, (d 1729), Architect
- Campbell, William, (1876-1936), Geologist and Metallurgist
- Cardus, Sir Neville, (1889-1975), knight, journalist
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, (1874-1965), Knight, prime minister and historian
- Clayton, Sir Robert, (1629-1707), Knight, MP, scrivener, Lord Mayor of London
- Cole, Sir Henry, (1808-1882), Knight, public servant
- Colles, William Morris, (1855-1926), literary agent London
- Colum, Padraic, (1881-1972), poet and playwright
- Coppard, Alfred Edgar, (1878-1957), poet and author
- Courtney, Dame Kathleen D'Olier, (1878-1974), philanthropist
- Couzyn, Jeni, (b 1942), poet South Africa
- Craigie, Dorothy, (1901-1971), Author
- Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa, (1867-1906), novelist and dramatist
- Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, (1776-1847), vicar of Exning, antiquary and bibliographer
- Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, (1845-1926), economist
- Ellis, Henry Havelock, (1859-1939), psychologist, writer and social reformer Croydon, Surrey
- Firbank, Arthur Annesley Ronald, (1886-1926), Author and Playwright
- Fletcherl, Ifan Kyrle, (1905-1969), bookseller
- Forster, Edward Morgan, (1879-1970), novelist and critic
- Foxwell, Herbert Somerton, (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer
- Fuller, Roy Broadbent, (b 1912), poet and author
- Fulton, Robert, (1765-1815), Civil Engineer Inventor and Artist
- Gallico, Paul William, (1897-1976), Author and Journalist
- Gill, Eric, (1882-1940), sculptor and engraver
- Gissing, George Robert, (1857-1903), novelist
- Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, (1856-1925), Knight, novelist
- Hampton, Christopher, (b 1946), Playwright
- Harris, Thomas Lake, (1823-1906), mystic
- Higgs, Henry, (1864-1940), economist
- Hood, Thomas, (1799-1845), Poet
- Housman, Alfred Edward, (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Housman, Laurence, (1865-1959), writer and artist
- Howe, Darcus, (1943-2017), writer, broadcaster and activist
- Hughes, Edward James, (1930-1998), OBE, poet Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire
- Jackson, Holbrook, (1874-1948), Author
- James, Cyril Lionel Robert, (1901-1989), activist, writer and historian Trinidad;Brixton, Surrey
- James, Henry, (1843-1916), novelist
- Jones, Ernest Charles, (1819-1869), Chartist and poet
- Kemble, Frances Anne, (1809-1893), actress
- Kernahan, John Coulson, (1858-1943), writer
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Lawrence, David Herbert, (1885-1930), poet, novelist and essayist Australia;France;United States of America;Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
- Levertov, Denise, (1923-1997), poet Essex
- Lucas, Edward Verrall, (1868-1938), author and publisher
- Lucas, Frank Laurence, (1894-1967), author and scholar
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay, statesman and historian
- Mackay, Mary, (1855-1924), novelist
- MacNeice, Louis, (1907-1963), poet and dramatist
- Marshall, Alfred, (1842-1924), economist
- Martineau, Harriet, (1802-1876), writer
- Masefield, John Edward, (1878-1967), poet
- Maude, Aylmer, (1858-1938), author and translator
- Milne, Alan Alexander, (1882-1956), author, poet and playwright Kilburn, Middlesex
- Milton, John, (1608-1674), Poet
- Mitchel, John, (1815-1875), Irish Nationalist
- Mitchison, Naomi Margaret, (1897-1999), Baroness Mitchison, writer and social activist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Moore, George Augustus, (1852-1933), Author
- Murray, George Gilbert Aime, (1866-1957), classicist and internationalist
- Myres, Sir John Linton, (1869-1954), Knight, historian and archaeologist
- Nesbitt, Cathleen, (1888-1982), Actress
- Nichols, John, (1745-1826), printer, author and antiquary
- Nichols, John Bowyer, (1779-1863), printer and antiquary
- Oastler, Richard, (1789-1861), Manufacturer
- Oldknow, Samuel, (1756-1828), Cotton Manufacturer
- Oliphant, Laurence, (1829-1888), diplomatist, traveller and mystic
- O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar, (1844-1881), poet and herpetologist
- Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter, (1893-1918), poet Oswestry, Shropshire
- Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, (1827-1919), knight, banker and economist
- Palmer, Christopher, (1946-1995), musician and music critic
- Parker, Louis Napoleon, (1852-1944), Musician and Playwright
- Place, Francis, (1771-1854), radical reformer
- Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon, (1854-1932), Knight, Irish statesman
- Pound, Ezra Loomis, (1885-1972), poet
- Powys, John Cowper, (1872-1963), novelist and writer
- Pridden, John, (1758-1825), Anglican clergyman, antiquary, architect and philanthropist
- Priestley, John Boynton, (1894-1984), writer
- Prokofiev, Lina, (1897-1989), soprano
- Prokofiev, Oleg, (1928-1998), artist and poet
- Prokofiev, Serge Sergeevich, (1891-1953), composer
- Rackham, Arthur, (1867-1939), Illustrator
- Repton, John Adey, (1775-1860), Architect and Antiquary
- Roche, Mazo de la, (1885-1961), author
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, Dora, (1894-1986), Countess Russell, author, feminist and socialist campaigner
- Sansom, Sir George Bailey, (1883-1965), Knight Professor of Japanese Studies
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, (1886-1967), poet and author
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh, (1893-1957), playwright, author and humanist
- Shaw, George Bernard, (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Shaw, William, (1830-1906), British Merchant in Greece and Turkey
- Sinclair, Sir John, (1754-1835), 1st Baronet, politician and agriculturist
- Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa, (1887-1964), poet and critic
- Sitwell, Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell, (1892-1969), 5th Baronet, author
- Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell, (1897-1988), 6th Baronet, author and art critic
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Squire, Sir John Collings, (1884-1958), Knight, writer and journalist
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, (1850-1894), author and traveller
- Stewart, Dugald, (1753-1828), philosopher
- Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael, (1880-1958), scientist
- Sylvester, James Joseph, (1814-1897), mathematician
- Thirlwall, Newell Connop, (1797-1875), Bishop of St Davids historian
- Topham, Francis William, (1808-1877), Painter
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay, (1876-1962), historian
- Wallas, Graham, (1858-1932), political psychologist
- Ward, Mary Augusta, (1851-1920), novelist and social worker Hobart, Tasmania;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Waugh, Alexander Raban, (1898-1981), author
- Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John, (1903-1966), novelist
- Webb, Sidney James, (1859-1947), Baron Passfield, statesman
- White, Terence Hanbury, (1906-1964), writer
- Williams, Harold Whitmore, (1876-1928), journalist
- Wise, Thomas James, (1859-1937), Bibliographer Book Collector Forger
- Woolf, Leonard Sidney, (1880-1969), editor, author and civil servant
- Yeats, William Butler, (1865-1939), poet and playwright
- Zaharoff, Sir Basil, (1850-1936), Knight, international arms contractor
Families (3)
- Belasyse family, Viscounts Fauconberg, and Wombwell family, baronets, of Newburgh Priory Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire
- Fairfax family of Gilling Gilling, Yorkshire
- Willoughby family, Barons Middleton Smallwood, Cheshire;Mapperley, Derbyshire;Risley, Derbyshire;Knowlton, Dorset;Woodlands, Dorset;Steeple Hall, Essex;Westerleigh, Gloucestershire;Fordingbridge, Hampshire;Standon, Hertfordshire;Bore Place, Kent;Chiddingstone, Kent;Penshurst, Kent;Sundridge, Kent;Cossington, Leicestershire;Wymeswold, Leicestershire;Dunsby, Lincolnshire;Stapleford, Lincolnshire;Wellingore, Lincolnshire;Holborn, Middlesex;Sheringham, Norfolk;Cossall, Nottinghamshire;Gunthorpe, Nottinghamshire;Lowdham, Nottinghamshire;South Carlton, Nottinghamshire;South Muskham, Nottinghamshire;Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire;Wollaton, Nottinghamshire;Much Wenlock, Shropshire;Locking, Somerset;Stawell, Somerset;Tamworth, Staffordshire;Carshalton, Surrey;Kingsbury, Warwickshire;Middleton, Warwickshire;Wick, Worcestershire;Birdsall, Yorkshire;Helmsley, Yorkshire;Ravensworth, Yorkshire;Wharram-le-Street, Yorkshire;Wharram Percy, Yorkshire;Applecross, Ross and Cromarty