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Businesses (4)
- Astleys Theatre London
- Gaiety Theatre London
- Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre London
- Theatre Royal, Covent Garden London
Organisations (7)
- Admiralty
- Buckland (Minchin Buckland) Preceptory and nunnery (Order of St John of Jerusalem or Knights Hospitallers) West Buckland, Somerset
- HMS Captain (1787)
- HMS Victory (1765)
- Lancashire Assizes Lancashire;Lancashire
- New England Company
- Yorkshire militia Yorkshire and the Humber
Persons (367)
- (de) Cardonnel, Adam, (1663-1719), secretary to the Duke of Marlborough
- Abercromby, Sir Robert, (1740-1827), Knight, army officer and administrator in India
- Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, (1807-1873), naturalist
- Aiken, Conrad Potter, (1889-1973), poet
- Aitken, Charles, (1869-1936), Director of National Gallery Millbank
- Aldington, Richard, (1892-1962), Novelist
- Arnold, Benedict, (1741-1801), Brigadier General
- Auden, Wystan Hugh, (1907-1973), poet York, Yorkshire
- Bailey, Benjamin, (c 1791-1853), Archdeacon of Colombo
- Baillie, Joanna, (1762-1851), playwright and poet
- Barham, Richard Harris, (1788-1845), author
- Baring, Maurice, (1874-1945), journalist and author
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, (1834-1924), rector of Lew Trenchard, antiquary, folklorist and hymn writer
- Barker, George Granville, (1913-1991), poet
- Barker, Thomas, (1722-1809), Scientist
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent, (1872-1898), artist
- Beckett, Samuel Barclay, (1906-1989), author, playwright and poet Dublin, County Dublin
- Beckford, William, (1760-1844), Author MP Art Collector
- Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian, (1872-1956), Knight, author and cartoonist
- Begley, Walter, (1845-1905), Vicar of East Hyde Author
- Belasyse, Sir Henry, (1555-1624), 1st Baronet MP
- Beltz, Sir George Frederick, (1774-1841), Lancaster herald
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold, (1867-1931), novelist playwright and journalist
- Benson, Arthur Christopher, (1862-1925), writer
- Bentley, Richard, (1794-1871), publisher
- Bernard, Sir Francis, (1711-1779), Knight Colonial Governor
- Binyon, Robert Laurence, (1869-1943), poet art historian and critic
- Black, William Henry, (1808-1872), antiquary
- Bliss, Philip, (1787-1857), antiquary and editor
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, (1840-1922), hedonist, poet, and breeder of Arab horses
- Bone, Sir Muirhead, (1876-1953), Knight, etcher and painter
- Borough, Sir John, (d 1643), Knight Herald
- Bosanquet, Theodora, (1880-1961), literary editor
- Bottomley, Gordon, (1874-1948), poet and dramatist
- Bowdler, John, (1746-1823), Author
- Bowles, William Lisle, (1762-1850), Canon of Salisbury, poet, antiquary
- Bowring, Sir John, (1792-1872), Knight, MP, diplomat, colonial governor, author, traveller
- Boyle, Charles, (1676-1731), 4th Earl of Orrery and 1st Baron Marston, General
- Boyle, John, (1707-1762), 5th Earl of Cork and of Orrery
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, (1837-1915), novelist
- Bradstreet, John, (1711-1774), Major General
- Bridges, Robert Seymour, (1844-1930), Poet Laureate
- Bridges-Adams, William, (1889-1965), actor, director and historian
- Brontë, Charlotte, (1816-1855), novelist and poet
- Brontë, Emily Jane, (1818-1848), novelist and poet
- Bronte, Patrick Branwell, (1817-1848), Painter
- Brontë, Patrick Bronwell, (1777-1861), author
- Brooke, Frances, (1724-1789), novelist and playwright
- Brooks, Charles William Shirley, (1816-1874), editor of Punch
- Bryce, James, (1838-1922), Viscount Bryce of Dechmount, statesman
- Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, (1762-1837), 1st Baronet, MP, bibliographer and genealogist
- Burke, Edmund, (1729-1797), statesman
- Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley, (1833-1898), 1st Baronet, painter
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis, (1821-1890), explorer, diplomat and author
- Butler, Lady Eleanor, (c 1739-1829), One of the Ladies of Llangollen
- Byrne, Donn, (1889-1928), Novelist
- Cairnes, John Elliot, (1823-1875), political economist
- Caldecott, Randolph, (1846-1886), artist
- Calverley, Charles Stuart, (1831-1884), Poet and Parodist
- Campbell, Ignatius Roy Dunnachie, (1901-1957), poet and translator
- Campbell, Thomas, (1777-1844), poet
- Canning, George, (1770-1827), statesman
- Carlyle, Thomas, (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher
- Cary, Henry Francis, (1772-1844), Translator
- Chabot, Charles, (1815-1882), Handwriting Expert
- Child, Francis James, (1825-1896), philologist
- Cholmley, Sir Henry, (1609-1666), Knight Colonel MP
- Churton, Ralph, (1754-1831), Archdeacon of St David's, biographer
- Clausen, Sir George, (1852-1944), Knight, painter
- Clough, Arthur Hugh, (1819-1861), poet
- Cobbett, William, (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher
- Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, (1807-1873), Philologist and Schoolmaster
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962), Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Collins, William Wilkie, (1824-1889), novelist and playwright London
- Conrad, Joseph, (1857-1924), master mariner and author
- Coppard, Alfred Edgar, (1878-1957), poet and author
- Coram, Thomas, (1668-1751), Philanthropist
- Cornwallis, Sir Charles, (d 1629), Knight, diplomat
- Cournos, John, (1881-1966), Novelist Poet and Critic
- Craig, Edward Henry Gordon, (1872-1966), English modernist theatre practitioner
- Crane, Walter, (1845-1915), artist
- Croker, Thomas Crofton, (1798-1854), Irish antiquary
- Cromwell, Richard, (1626-1712), Lord Protector
- Cruikshank, George, (1792-1878), artist and caricaturist
- Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine, (1852-1936), politician and author
- Darusmont, Frances, (1795-1852), philanthropist
- Darwin, Sir Francis, (1848-1925) knight, botanist
- Dashwood, Edmee Elizabeth Monica, (1890-1943), writer
- Davies, Sir John, (1569-1626), Knight, Attorney General of Ireland and poet
- Day Lewis, Cecil, (1904-1972), poet
- D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, (1602-1650), 1st Baronet, MP and antiquary
- Dibdin, Charles, (1745-1814), Dramatist and Songwriter
- Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, (1776-1847), vicar of Exning, antiquary and bibliographer
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam, (1812-1870), novelist and journalist
- Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Dobson, Henry Austin, (1840-1921), Poet and Literary Biographer
- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, (1832-1898), author and mathematician
- Dodington, George Bubb, (1691-1762), Baron Melcombe, politician
- D'Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, (1801-1852), Count D'Orsay, artist
- Douglas, Norman, (1868-1952), author and traveller
- Du Maurier, Guy Louis Busson, (1865-1915), Lieutenant Colonel
- Dundas, Henry, (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
- Eccles, Mary Hyde, (1912-2003), Viscountess, book and manuscripts collector and literary scholar
- Eden, Sir Frederick Morton, (1766-1809), Knight, writer on the state of the poor
- Eden, George, (1784-1849), Earl of Auckland, Governor General of India, statesman
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns, (1888-1965), poet
- Ellis, Sir Henry, (1777-1869), Knight, Principal Librarian of the British Museum and antiquary
- Ellis, Henry Havelock, (1859-1939), psychologist, writer and social reformer Croydon, Surrey
- Empson, William, (1906-1984), Poet and Professor of English Literature
- Etheredge, George, (c1635-1691), Knight Dramatist Diplomat
- Etherege, Sir George, (1636-1691), Knight Dramatist
- Evelyn, John, (1620-1706), diarist, traveller, numismatist, antiquary and gardener
- Fairfax, Brian, (1633-1711), politician
- Fairfax, Thomas, (1612-1671), 3rd Baron Fairfax, General
- Fane, Mildmay, (d 1665), 2nd Earl of Westmorland
- Firbank, Arthur Annesley Ronald, (1886-1926), Author and Playwright
- Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens, (1865-1940), historian and statesman
- Flecker, Herman James Elroy, (1884-1915), poet and dramatist
- Fletcher, John Gould, (1886-1950), Poet
- Fortescue, Sir John William, (1859-1933), Knight Military Historian
- Froude, Robert Hurrell, (1770-1859), Archdeacon of Totnes
- Fry, Roger Eliot, (1866-1934), art critic and artist
- Furnivall, Frederick James, (1825-1910), scholar, editor and oarsman
- Gage, Thomas, (1721-1787), General Governor of Massachusetts
- Gale, Norman, (1862-1942), Author and Poet
- Galsworthy, John, (1867-1933), author
- Garnett, Edward, (1868-1937), writer
- Garrick, David, (1717-1779), actor
- Garrick, Eva Marie, (1724-1822), dancer
- Gifford, Richard, (1725-1807), Clergyman and Author
- Gilchrist, Anne, (1828-1885), writer
- Gill, Eric, (1882-1940), sculptor and engraver
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Godolphin, Sidney, (1645-1712), 1st Earl of Godolphin
- Gogarty, Oliver St John, (1878-1957), Irish Senator and Writer
- Gosse, Sir Edmund William, (1849-1928), Knight, poet, biographer and literary critic
- Granville-Barker, Harley, (1877-1946), actor, dramatist and critic
- Graves, Robert Ranke, (1895-1985), poet and author
- Gray, Thomas, (1716-1771), poet
- Guthrie, Henry, (? 1600-1676), Bishop of Dunkeld
- Guthrie, Thomas Anstey, (1856-1934), Humorous Writer 'F Anstey'
- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, (1796-1865), MP Jurist
- Hall, Joseph, (1574-1656), Bishop of Norwich
- Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, (1820-1889), antiquary and literary scholar
- Hamilton, Henry, (1734-1796), Colonel Colonial Governor
- Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Harington, Sir John, (1561-1612), Knight Wit and Author
- Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert Charles , (1907-1999) Knight, author, editor and publisher
- Harvey, Sir John Martin-, (1863-1944), Knight and actor manager
- Hawkins, Sir John, (1719-1789), Knight Author
- Hayley, William, (1745-1820), poet
- Hearn, Patricio Lafcadio Carlos, (1850-1904), author and translator
- Heinemann, William, (1863-1920), publisher
- Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, (1793-1835), poet
- Henley, William Ernest, (1849-1903), writer
- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, (1750-1848), astronomer
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Herschel, Sir William, (1738-1822), Knight, astronomer and musician
- Hewlett, Maurice Henry, (1861-1923), Novelist Poet and Essayist
- Hirst, Francis Wrigley, (1873-1953), Lawyer Economist Biographer
- Hollis, Thomas, (1720-1774), Antiquary Republican
- Hood, Thomas, (1799-1845), Poet
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson, (1785-1865), Knight, botanist Norwich, Norfolk
- Horne, Richard Hengist, (1803-1884), author
- Housman, Alfred Edward, (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Howe, Joseph, (1804-1873), Nova Scotian statesman
- Howell, James, (1594-1666), author
- Howitt, Mary, (1799-1888), writer
- Hudson, William Henry, (1841-1922), naturalist
- Hughes, Thomas, (1822-1896), author MP
- Humphry, Ozias, (1742-1810), Portrait Painter
- Hutton, Edward, (1875-1969), Author and Art Connoisseur
- James, George Payne Rainsford, (1799-1860), novelist historian and diplomat
- James, Henry, (1843-1916), novelist
- Jeffries, John, (1745-1819), American Loyalist Scientist and Aeronaut
- John, Augustus Edwin, (1878-1961), painter and etcher
- Johnson, Samuel, (1709-1784), lexicographer, essayist, literary biographer
- Johnston, Denis, (1901-1984), Playwright
- Jordan, Thomas, (? 1612-1685), Poet
- Joyce, James Augustine, (1882-1941), poet, novelist and playwright
- Junius, Francis, (1589-1677), Philologist and Antiquary
- Kean, Charles John, (? 1811-1868), Actor
- Kean, Edmund, (1787-1833), Actor
- Keats, John, (1795-1821), poet
- Kemble, John Philip, (1757-1823), actor
- Kingsley, Charles, (1819-1875), Canon of Westminster author
- Kingsley, Henry, (1830-1876), Novelist
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Kirkup, James, (b 1923), Poet Novelist Playwright Broadcaster
- Knoblock, Edward, (1874-1945), Playwright
- Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand, (1907-1966), Mathematician and Orientalist
- Krasinski, Walerjan Skorobohaty, (1780-1855), Count Hrabia, Polish historian
- Lamb, Charles, (1775-1834), essayist and humorist
- Lamont, Thomas William, (1870-1948), Businessman
- Landor, Walter Savage, (1775-1864), author
- Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry, (1802-1873), Knight, Knight Painter
- Lang, Andrew, (1844-1912), anthropologist, classicist and historian
- Lawrence, David Herbert, (1885-1930), poet, novelist and essayist Australia;France;United States of America;Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas, (1769-1830), Knight, painter
- Lawrence, Thomas Edward, (1888-1935), intelligence officer and author
- Le Gallienne, Richard Thomas, (1866-1947), poet and essayist
- Leach, Henry Goddard, (1880-1970), Scandinavian scholar
- Lear, Edward, (1812-1888), landscape painter and writer
- Leavis, Frank Raymond, (1895-1978), Literary Critic Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Lemon, Mark, (1809-1870), writer and editor of Punch magazine
- Lennox, Charlotte, (c1720-1804), novelist, playwright and poet
- Lenton, Francis, (fl 1630-1650), Poet
- Lever, Charles James, (1806-1872), novelist
- Lewes, George Henry, (1817-1878), author
- Linton, William James, (1812-1898), engraver, poet and political reformer
- Little, James Stanley, (1856-1940), author and editor
- Lloyd, Charles, (1775-1839), poet
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, (1821-1895), poet
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay, statesman and historian
- MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, (1859-1948), painter and museum administrator
- MacDonald, George, (1824-1905), novelist and poet
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, (1866-1937), statesman
- Machen, Arthur Llewelyn Jones, (1863-1947), novelist and essayist
- Macklin, Charles, (? 1699-1797), Actor
- Madden, Sir Frederic, (1801-1873), Knight, antiquary and palaeographer
- Madden, Frederic William, (1839-1904), numismatist and librarian
- Mainwaring, Matthew, (1561-1652), Poet
- Mare, Walter John de la, (1873-1956), author and poet
- Martineau, Harriet, (1802-1876), writer
- Masefield, John Edward, (1878-1967), poet
- Mathias, Thomas James, (? 1754-1835), Satirist and Italian Scholar
- McCarthy, Lila Emma, (1875-1960), actress and theatre manager
- Merrick, Leonard, (1864-1939), Writer
- Merry, Robert, (1755-1798), Dilettante
- Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, (1889-1952), Poet and Author
- Meynell, Wilfrid, (1852-1948), journalist and biographer
- Milnes, Richard Monckton, (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, politician and poet
- Mitford, Mary Russell, (1787-1855), novelist and dramatist
- Monro, Harold Edward, (1879-1932), poet, editor and bookseller
- Montgomery, John, (fl 1570-1590), Naval Writer
- Moore, George Augustus, (1852-1933), Author
- Morris, William, (1834-1896), poet artist and socialist Walthamstow, Essex
- Moult, Thomas, (1893-1974), Poet Novelist and Critic
- Nelson, Horatio, (1758-1805), 1st Viscount Nelson, Vice Admiral
- Newcomen, Matthew, (? 1610-1669), Ejected Minister
- Newman, Francis William, (1805-1897), Scholar and Man of Letters
- Nicholson, Sir Francis, (1660-1728), Knight Colonial Governor
- Norris, Edwin, (1795-1872), Orientalist and Cornish Scholar
- Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah, (1808-1877), poet and campaigner for women's rights
- Norton, Charles Eliot, (1827-1908), American Author and Educationist
- O'Casey, Sean, (1880-1964), playwright and writer
- O'Flaherty, Liam, (1896-1984), novelist
- Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, (1828-1897), novelist and biographer
- Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague, (1878-1931), Knight Painter
- Palgrave, Sir Francis, (1788-1861), Knight, barrister, antiquary and archivist
- Parkes, David, (1763-1833), Schoolmaster Draughtsman and Antiquary
- Pater, Walter Horatio, (1839-1894), critic and humanist
- Patmore, Peter George, (1786-1855), Author and Editor
- Peake, Richard Brinsley, (1792-1847), dramatist
- Peck, Louis Francis, (1904-1966), Literary Scholar
- Pennington, Montagu, (1762-1849), vicar of Northbourne biographer and editor
- Pepys, Samuel, (1633-1703), MP, diarist, public servant and antiquary
- Percy, Thomas, (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, antiquary
- Philippart, John, (1784-1874), military writer
- Phillips, Henry, (1801-1876), Musician
- Pinker, James Brand, (1863-1922), literary agent
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, (1741-1821), literary figure and writer
- Planche, James Robinson, (1796-1880), herald and dramatist
- Ponsonby, Magdalen, (1864-1934), Philanthropist
- Ponsonby, Sarah, (1755-1831), one of the "Ladies of Llangollen"
- Pope, Alexander, (1688-1744), poet
- Porter, Anna Maria, (1780-1832), novelist
- Porter, Jane, (1776-1850), novelist
- Porter, Sir Robert Ker, (1777-1842), Knight, painter and traveller
- Pound, Ezra Loomis, (1885-1972), poet
- Prestage, Edgar, (1869-1951), Professor of Portuguese, historian
- Prideaux, William Francis, (1840-1914), Colonel Archaeologist Bibliographer
- Procter, Bryan Waller, (1787-1874), poet
- Quincey, Thomas de, (1785-1859), author
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, (? 1552-1618), Knight Military and Naval Commander Author
- Ramee, Marie Louise de la, (1839-1908), novelist
- Reresby, Sir John, (d 1646), 1st Baronet Governor of Hull
- Reynolds, John Hamilton, (1796-1852), poet
- Richards, Franklin Thomas Grant, (1872-1948), publisher
- Richards, Ivor Armstrong, (1893-1979), Literary Critic and Theorist
- Richardson, Samuel, (1689-1761), novelist
- Rogers, Bruce, (1870-1957), typographer and book designer
- Rolfe, Frederick William, (1860-1913), author as Baron Corvo
- Ross, Patrick, (1740-1804), Practitioner Engineer
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, (1828-1882), painter and poet
- Rothenstein, Sir William, (1872-1945), Knight, painter
- Rowlands, Samuel, (1570-1630), Writer
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, (1872-1970), 3rd Earl Russell, philosopher
- Russell, George William, (1867-1935), poet painter economist and journalist
- Russell, John, (1842-1876), Viscount Amberley , MP
- Russell, William, (1780-1870), Painter
- Sadleir, Michael Thomas Harvey, (1888-1957), Author and Publisher
- Saunders, Sir Charles, (1713-1775), Knight Admiral
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh, (1893-1957), playwright, author and humanist Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Secker, Martin, (1882-1978), publisher
- Severn, Joseph, (1793-1879), painter
- Severn, Walter, (1830-1904), Painter
- Seward, Anna, (1747-1809), poet and author
- Shannon, Charles Haslewood, (1863-1937), Lithographer and Painter
- Sharp, Margery, (1905-1991), author
- Shaw, George Bernard, (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, (1797-1851), author
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, (1792-1822), poet
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, (1751-1816), dramatist and politician Dublin, County Dublin
- Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa, (1887-1964), poet and critic
- Sitwell, Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell, (1892-1969), 5th Baronet, author
- Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone, (1858-1949), writer
- Southey, Caroline Anne, (1786-1854), poet
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Spencer, Herbert, (1820-1903), philosopher
- Spender, Sir Stephen Harold, (1909-1995), Knight, poet
- Stapleton, Sir William, (1698-1740), 4th Baronet MP
- Steer, Philip Wilson, (1860-1942), Painter
- Stephens, James, (1882-1950), poet and novelist
- Stepney, George, (1663-1707), diplomat and poet
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, (1850-1894), author and traveller
- Stockdale, Percival, (1736-1811), Author
- Strachey, Evelyn John St Loe, (1901-1963), statesman and political thinker
- Sturgis, Howard Overing, (1855-1920), novelist
- Swain, Joseph, (1820-1909), Wood Engraver
- Swift, Jonathan, (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin Satirist
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, (1837-1909), poet
- Symonds, John Addington, (1840-1893), poet, historian and translator
- Symons, Albert James Alroy, (1900-1941), Author and Bibliophile
- Symons, Arthur William, (1865-1945), editor, critic and poet
- Tagore, Sir Rabindranath, (1861-1941), Knight Hindu Poet
- Taylor, John, (1781-1864), Publisher
- Temple, Henry John, (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, statesman
- Tenniel, Sir John, (1820-1914), Knight Cartoonist
- Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet
- Tennyson, Frederick, (1807-1898), poet
- Tennyson, Hallam, (1852-1928), 2nd Baron Tennyson, Governor General of Australia
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1811-1863), novelist
- Thomas, Dylan, (1914-1953), poet and dramatist Swansea, Glamorgan
- Thompson, Benjamin, (1753-1814), Count Von Rumford, scientist
- Thynne, Francis, (? 1545-1608), Antiquary and Lancaster Herald
- Tonks, Henry, (1862-1937), painter
- Toole, John Lawrence, (1830-1906), Actor Manager
- Toynbee, Paget Jackson, (1855-1932), Dante Scholar
- Trelawny, Edward John, (1792-1881), Author and Adventurer
- Trollope, Anthony, (1815-1882), novelist
- Tryon, William, (1725-1788), Governor of New York
- Tupper, Martin Farquhar, (1810-1889), author, poet and inventor
- Twisleton, Edward Turner Boyd, (1809-1874), Civil Service Commissioner
- Upcott, William, (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector
- Vallancey, Charles, (1721-1812), General Antiquary
- Vanbrugh, Sir John, (1664-1726), Knight, dramatist, architect and herald
- Villiers, George William Frederick, (1800-1870), 4th Earl of Clarendon, statesman
- Watson, Robert Spence, (1837-1911), Politician and Reformer
- Way, Sir Samuel James, (1836-1916), 1st Baronet Lieutenant Governor of South Australia
- Webster, Benjamin Nottingham, (1797-1882), actor and dramatist
- Wells, Herbert George, (1866-1946), novelist
- Wharton, Edith Newbold, (1862-1937), American author
- Whewell, William, (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, (1834-1903), painter
- White, Gilbert, (1720-1793), naturalist
- Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, (1854-1900), author
- Williams, Charles Walter Stansby, (1886-1945), author
- Wingfield, Sheila Claude, (1906-1992), poet
- Woods, Margaret Louisa, (1856-1945), writer
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia, (1882-1941), author and critic Kensington, Middlesex
- Wordsworth, William, (1770-1850), poet
- Yates, Frederick Henry, (1797-1842), actor
- Yeats, William Butler, (1865-1939), poet and playwright
Diaries (1)
Families (3)
- Bernard family, baronets, of Nettleham Nettleham, Lincolnshire;Chearsley, Buckinghamshire;Cuddington, Buckinghamshire;Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire;Sarratt, Hertfordshire
- Boyle family, Earls of Burlington and Cork Lismore, County Waterford;Dungarvan, County Waterford;Youghal, County Cork
- White family of Selborne Selborne, Hampshire;Corhampton, Hampshire;Hawkley, Hampshire;Preshaw, Hampshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (11)
- NRA 20034 Theodora Bosanquet, literary editor and secretary to Henry James: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20033 Sir John Bowring, writer and diplomat: letters received link to online catalogue
- NRA 20035 Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery: corresp and papers
- NRA 20032 Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, bibliographer and genealogist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24376 Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 20129 Harvard University: Houghton Library, English MSS
- NRA 19360 Sir William and Sir JEW Herschel papers
- NRA 1195 Thomas Hollis diary
- NRA 26204 Joseph Howe, Canadian statesman: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 12827 Thomas Edward Lawrence corresp and literary MSS link to online catalogue
- NRA 26791 Sir Robert Ker Porter, painter and traveller: journals and collected letters link to online catalogue