Politician and poet; known for his elegies.

Member of the Blandford friends coterie

Politician; dedicatee of two manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of early eighteenth-century satirical poetry, which also features his own work; possibly a cousin of the Viscountess Vane and the Francis Hawes who served as director of the South Sea Company.

Music scholar and lawyer; friend of Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole.

Poet and biographer; best known as the biographer of William Cowper; author of poetic essays and epistles. 

Unidentified poet whose work features in Anne Blandford’s manuscript verse miscellany.

Poet showcased in a manuscript verse miscellany created by her son, Reginald Heber.

Bishop of Calcutta, man of letters, and hymn-writer; compiler of Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 111; son of Mary Allanson Heber, brother of Mary Heber.

Compiler of a Suffolk manuscript verse miscellany of polite poetry.

Seventeenth century Church of England clergyman and poet. 

Author of the poems “Verses sent to B. Arthington with a print of Lady Jane Grey,” “Written under the print of Dr. Fothergill,” and multiple sonnets featured in Thomas Binns’ manuscript verse miscellany.

Church of England clergyman and writer; author of a popular miscellany poem about the seasons, Mediations Among the Tombs. In a Letter to a Lady.

Courtier and writer; author of the popular miscellany poem “Monimia to Philocles.”

Politician and pamphleteer; author of a response to Arabella Morton’s poem "The Wish of Miss M[orto]n, Daughter to the Lord L— M[orton]."

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of serious, moral poems.

Writer, promoter of other writers, and entrepreneur.

Poet and playwright; friend of David Garrick.

Granddaughter of Mary Woodyeare Tibbits, and later owner of her manuscript verse miscellany.

Translator; friend of Samuel Johnson.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which contains occasional verses attributed to members of Charles James Fox’s circle. 

Politician and diplomat; author of political tracts, poems, and two tragedies. 

Aristocrat, writer and traveller; her poetry circulated amongst a group of fashionable friends, and her response to Frances Macartney Greville’s “A Prayer for Indifference” appears in multiple manuscript verse miscellanies.

Writer and librettist; famous for a series of panegyrics, his translation of Letters of Abelard and Heloise (1713), and his six-volume edition of Spenser’s works (1715).