Church of England clergyman and writer; Duncombe’s parody of Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard, An Evening Contemplation in a College was popular with miscellany compilers.

Late-eighteenth century owner of a lighthearted manuscript verse miscellany compiled by Mrs. Ogle. 

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of his original epitaphs, prayers, and letters.

Poet and literary editor; friend of Thomas Birch, Isaac Hawkins Browne, Daniel Wray, and Samuel Richardson. 

Poet who became Britain’s youngest Poet Laureate in 1718.

Co-compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany with Frances Glanville Boscawen. 

Poet and translator.

Novelist; famous for works with depictions of Scottish life and sharp views on women’s education; close friend of Lady Charlotte Campbell’s (later Bury’s) family. 

Poet; famous for aesthetic sensibility and poems expressing a desire for respect as a female poet; poems such as “The Progress of Life,” and “To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters” were popular with manuscript compilers. 

English peer; husband of poet Anne Kingsmill Finch, on whose behalf he copied a manuscript verse miscellany of her poetry. 

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of occasional, satirical, and lighthearted poetry.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of (three) poems satirizing the organizers of the American Revolution.

Author of three religious poems included in the anonymous manuscript Leeds Brotherton Lt45. 

Major author in the anonymous manuscript Folger MS M.b.23; maybe a part of a local network represented in the same. 

Painter of miniatures and man of letters.

Author and traveller; prolific manuscript writer and artist; compiler of Beinecke Osborn fc132. 

Later eighteenth-century owner of Benjamin Coles' manuscript, Leeds Brotherton Lt 53. Based in Derbyshire. 

First name tentative. Later eighteenth-century owner of Benjamin Coles' manuscript, Leeds Brotherton Lt 53. Based in Derbyshire. 

Politician; author of satirical poems like “On Gibbon,” “Invocation to Poverty,” and “To the Duchess of Devonshire" as well as "Verses Upon Mrs. Crewe,” which was popular with miscellany compilers. 

Politician; addressee of An Ode to the Honourable H—y F—x, on the Marriage of the Du—s of M—r to Hu—s—y, Esq, popular with miscellany compilers. 

Irish politician and pamphleteer, translator of Horace.

Member of Parliament; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany.

Innkeeper and political ballad writer.

Centre of a York coterie with Mrs. C. Wyvill.