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Businesses (1)
- Morris & Co Ltd, upholsterers, cabinet makers, tapestry and wallpaper manufacturers London;Merton, Surrey
Persons (143)
- Adams, Francis William Lauderdale, (1862-1893), author
- Astle, Thomas, (1735-1803), antiquary, archivist and palaeographer
- Bailey, James, (c 1790-1864), Classical Scholar Schoolmaster
- Banks, Sir Joseph, (1743-1820), Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, (1770-1827), German composer and pianist Germany
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene, (1870-1953), poet and author
- Blagden, Sir Charles, (1748-1820), Knight Physician
- Blagden, Isa Jane, (d 1873), author
- Blake, William, (1757-1827), Poet Painter and Engraver
- Blow, John, (1648-1708), composer
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, (1840-1922), hedonist, poet, and breeder of Arab horses
- Bradley, Katharine Harris, (1846-1914), poet and dramatist
- Brontë, Charlotte, (1816-1855), novelist and poet
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, (1806-1861), poet
- Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), poet
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Burges, Sir James Bland, (1752-1824), Knight and politician
- Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley, (1833-1898), 1st Baronet, painter
- Butler, Lady Eleanor, (c 1739-1829), One of the Ladies of Llangollen
- Cary, Henry Francis, (1772-1844), Translator
- Cavendish, Spencer Compton, (1833-1908), 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
- Chatterton, Thomas, (1752-1770), Poet
- Clare, John, (1793-1864), poet
- Clarke, James Stanier, (?1765-1834), Canon of Windsor, Royal Librarian and naval historian
- Cobbett, William, (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher
- Cobden, Richard, (1804-1865), statesman and businessman
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962), Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Cole, William, (1714-1782), Anglican clergyman and antiquary
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834), poet and philosopher
- Collingwood, William Gershom, (1854-1932), antiquary, archaeologist and artist
- Colvin, Sir Sidney, (1845-1927), Knight, art and literary critic
- Constable, John, (1776-1837), landscape painter
- Craggs, James, (1686-1721), Secretary of State
- Cubitt, George, (1828-1917), 1st Baron Ashcombe, politician
- Currie, Lady Mary Montgomerie, (1843-1905), poet and novelist
- Da Costa, Emanuel Mendes, (1717-1791), naturalist
- Darwin, Erasmus, (1731-1802), physician botanist and poet
- Dent, Edward Joseph, (1876-1957), musicologist
- Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Dobson, Henry Austin, (1840-1921), Poet and Literary Biographer
- Doughty, Charles Montagu, (1843-1926), poet and traveller
- Dryander, Jonas, (1748-1810), Botanist
- Edgeworth, Maria, (1768-1849), novelist and children's writer
- Ellis, Frederick Startridge, (1830-1901), bookseller and author
- Etty, William, (1787-1849), Painter
- Fairfax, Thomas, (1612-1671), 3rd Baron Fairfax, General
- Flaxman, John, (1755-1826), sculptor
- Gilpin, William, (1724-1804), Clergyman Educationist Biographer Topographer
- Goss, Sir John, (1800-1880), Knight Musician
- Greene, Richard, (1716-1793), antiquary and surgeon
- Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta, (1852-1932), playwright and poet Roxborough, County Limerick
- Grosvenor, Lady Sibell Mary, (1855-1929) Countess Grosvenor, philanthropist
- Grove, Sir George, (1820-1900), Knight Civil Engineer Writer On Music
- Handel, George Frederick, (1685-1759), musical composer Halle, Germany;London
- Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Hassall, Joan, (1906-1988), painter and wood engraver
- Haydon, Benjamin Robert, (1786-1846), painter
- Hayley, William, (1745-1820), poet
- Holroyd, John Baker, (1735-1821), 1st Earl of Sheffield, statesman
- Hood, Thomas, (1835-1874), humorist
- Housman, Alfred Edward, (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Housman, Laurence, (1865-1959), writer and artist
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh, (1784-1859), essayist and poet
- Hutton, James, (1726-1797), geologist
- Irwin, Eyles, (? 1751-1817), Writer
- James, Montague Rhodes, (1862-1936), Biblical Scholar Antiquary Palaeographer
- Johnson, John, (d 1833), Kinsman and Friend of Cowper
- Keats, John, (1795-1821), poet
- Keene, Charles Samuel, (1823-1891), artist
- Kenyon, John, (1784-1856), Poet and Philanthropist
- Kinglake, Alexander William, (1809-1891), MP, historian and traveller
- Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry, (1802-1873), Knight, Knight Painter
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas, (1769-1830), Knight, painter
- Le Strange, Guy, (1854-1933), Orientalist Historian
- Leighton, Frederic, (1830-1896), Baron Leighton of Stretton, painter
- Lever, Sir Ashton, (1729-1788), Knight Collector of the Leverian Museum
- Lind, James, (1736-1812), Physician and Astronomer
- Locke, Matthew, (c 1621-1677), English composer and music theorist Exeter, Devon;Netherlands
- Lytton, Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-, (1873-1957), 16th Baroness Wentworth, author
- Meynell, Wilfrid, (1852-1948), journalist and biographer
- Millais, Sir John Everett, (1829-1896), Knight, painter
- Miller, John Samuel, (d 1831), geologist
- Milles, Carl, (1875-1955), Swedish Sculptor
- Mitford, Mary Russell, (1787-1855), novelist and dramatist
- Moore, Thomas, (1779-1852), poet
- Morris, Jane, (1839-1914), embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite model
- Morris, William, (1834-1896), poet artist and socialist Walthamstow, Essex
- Newman, John Henry, (1801-1890), Cardinal, priest, poet and theologian
- Newton, Sir Isaac, (1642-1727), Knight, natural philosopher
- Oliphant, Laurence, (1829-1888), diplomatist, traveller and mystic
- Opie, Amelia, (1769-1853), novelist and poet
- Paget, Violet, (1856-1935), author
- Palmer, Edward Henry, (1840-1882), Orientalist
- Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings, (1848-1918), Knight Composer and Musical Writer
- Peel, Sir Robert, (1788-1850), Baronet, 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Perceval, Spencer, (1762-1812), statesman
- Perceval, Spencer George, (1838-1922), Antiquary and Geologist
- Percy, Thomas, (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, antiquary
- Philips, Nathaniel George, (1795-1832), Artist
- Phillips, Sir Richard, (1767-1840), Knight Author Bookseller and Publisher
- Prout, Samuel, (1783-1852), water colour painter Plymouth, Devon
- Purcell, Henry, (c1659-1695), composer
- Pye, Sybil Emily, (1879-1950), bookbinder
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, (? 1552-1618), Knight Military and Naval Commander Author
- Redmond, John Edward, (1856-1918), politician
- Repton, Humphry, (1752-1818), landscape gardener
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua, (1723-1792), Knight painter
- Robinson, Henry Crabb, (1775-1867), Diarist
- Romney, George, (1734-1802), painter
- Ross, Sir John, (1777-1856), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, (1828-1882), painter and poet
- Rossetti, William Michael, (1829-1919), man of letters and art critic
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Sackville, Lady Margaret, (1881-1963), author
- Seward, Anna, (1747-1809), poet and author
- Seward, Thomas, (1708-1790), Prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury Poet
- Shannon, Charles Haslewood, (1863-1937), Lithographer and Painter
- Shee, Sir Martin Archer, (1769-1850), Knight, portrait painter
- Skinner, John, (1772-1839), rector of Camerton antiquary
- Smiles, Samuel, (1812-1904), biographer and didact
- Smith, William, (1769-1839), geologist and engineer
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Squire, William Barclay, (1855-1927), Musical Antiquary
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, (1852-1924), Knight composer and conductor
- Starke, Marriana, (? 1762-1838), Playwright and Travel Writer
- Strutt, William, (1756-1830), inventor
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, (1837-1909), poet
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1811-1863), novelist
- Thomas, Arthur Goring, (1850-1892), Composer
- Thoresby, Ralph, (1658-1725), antiquary and topographer
- Turner, Joseph Mallord William, (1775-1851), landscape painter
- Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, (1694-1778), French Man of Letters
- Walker, Joseph Cooper, (1761-1810), antiquary
- Walpole, Horace, (1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, author collector antiquary MP
- Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour, (1884-1941), Knight Novelist and Man of Letters
- Walpole, Thomas, (1727-1803), MP London Merchant and Banker
- Warren, Joseph, (1804-1881), Musician
- Watson, Caroline, (? 1761-1814), Engraver
- Watts, George Frederic, (1817-1904), painter and sculptor
- Webb, Philip Speakman, (1831-1915), architect
- Webster, Thomas, (1773-1844), Geologist
- Wellesley, Arthur, (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- White, Gilbert, (1720-1793), naturalist
Families (1)
- Blunt family of Crabbet Park Crabbet Park, Sussex;Crawley, Sussex;Ifield, Sussex;Newbuildings, Sussex;Rusper, Sussex;Shipley, Sussex;Worth, Sussex
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 18524 HL Bradfer-Lawrence MSS
- NRA 25589 James Stewart Henderson collection
- NRA 41075 Montague Rhodes James, biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer: notebooks
- NRA 22840 Sir Robert Peel: corresp with artists