William King

male, deceased (1712)
William King (1663 - 1712) was an English poet. Born in London, the son of an Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl...
Augustus Montague Toplady

Augustus Montague Toplady

male, deceased (1778)
Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740 - August 11, 1778), Anglican divine, was born at Farnham, Surrey, and educated at Westminster and...

Robert Lloyd

male, deceased (1764)
Robert Lloyd (1733-1764) was an English poet and satirist. He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he...
Charles Churchill

Charles Churchill

male, deceased (1764)
Charles Churchill (February, 1731 - November 4, 1764), was an English poet and satirist. Churchill was born in Vine Street, Westminster. His...
Richard Blackmore

Richard Blackmore

male, deceased (1729)
Sir Richard Blackmore, (January 22 1654 - October 9, 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an...
Aaron Hill

Aaron Hill

male, deceased (1750)
Aaron Hill (February 10, 1685 - February 8, 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The son of a country gentleman of Wiltshire,...

Joseph Williamson

male, deceased (1701)
Sir Joseph Williamson, FRS (July 25, 1633- October 3, 1701), English politician, was born at Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, where his father, also...

Tristram Jones-Parry

male
Tristram Jones-Parry is a former British teacher of mathematics and former headmaster of Emanuel School and Westminster School, independent schools...
John Cleland

John Cleland

male, deceased (1789)
John Cleland ("baptised" September 24, 1709 - January 23, 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of "Fanny Hill: or,...
Dominic Lawson

Dominic Lawson

male, 53 years old
Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born December 17 1956) is a British journalist. He was born in an influential Jewish family, the son of a then future...