Author | Lifespan | Total Quotations | Description | % Correct |
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William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | 32,586 | playwright and poet | 99%
|
Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | 9,213 | novelist | 91%
|
Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | 1,738 | novelist | 86%
|
Adam Smith | bap. 1723, d. 1790 | 734 | moral philosopher and political economist | 84%
|
James Smith | 1775-1839 | 750 | writer and humorist | 83%
|
John Smith | bap. 1580, d. 1631 | 1,757 | soldier and colonial governor | 83%
|
Sydney Smith | 1771-1845 | 682 | author and wit | 83%
|
Charlotte Brontë | 1816-1855 | 1,330 | novelist | 82%
|
Ben Jonson | ?1573-1637 | 4,985 | poet and playwright | 80%
|
Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | 2,507 | author and lecturer | 79%
|
Geoffrey Chaucer | c1340-1400 | 13,923 | poet and administrator | 78%
|
Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784 | 5,231 | author and lexicographer | 77%
|
Lord Byron | 1788-1824 | 4,359 | poet | 75%
|
John Stuart Mill | 1806-1873 | 1,450 | philosopher, economist, and advocate of women's rights | 74%
|
Thomas Ken | 1637-1711 | 1,131 | bishop of Bath and Wells and nonjuror | 74%
|
Thomas Brown | bap. 1663, d. 1704 | 1,170 | writer | 73%
|
Henry James | 1843-1916 | 1,216 | writer | 72%
|
Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | 3,665 | poet | 72%
|
Charles Darwin | 1809-1882 | 1,987 | naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection | 71%
|
George Eliot | 1819-1880 | 3,461 | novelist | 71%
|
George P.R. James | 1801-1860 | 901 | novelist | 71%
|
William Black | 1841-1898 | 1,104 | journalist and novelist | 71%
|
William James | 1842-1910 | 1,121 | philosopher and psychologist | 71%
|
Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | 669 | writer and publisher | 69%
|
John Keats | 1795-1821 | 1,788 | poet | 68%
|
Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951 | 687 | novelist | 68%
|
Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953 | 808 | poet | 67%
|
Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | 4,876 | writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin | 66%
|
Thomas Adams | 1583-1652 | 1,108 | Church of England clergyman | 66%
|
Thomas More | 1478-1535 | 3,525 | lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr | 66%
|
Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | 17,055 | poet and novelist | 66%
|
Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | 2,643 | writer | 65%
|
William Carr | d. 1843 | 912 | (none given) | 65%
|
William of Shoreham | fl. c1320 | 818 | poet | 65%
|
Hugh Miller | 1802-1856 | 872 | geologist, evangelical journalist, and writer | 64%
|
John Milton | 1608-1674 | 12,274 | poet and polemicist | 64%
|
Philip Miller | 1691-1771 | 899 | horticulturist and writer | 64%
|
James Joyce | 1882-1941 | 2,478 | writer | 63%
|
James Lee | 1715-1795 | 675 | nurseryman | 63%
|
Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | 2,426 | novelist and poet | 62%
|
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930 | 836 | writer | 61%
|
Daniel Defoe | ?1660-1731 | 5,322 | writer and businessman | 60%
|
H.G. Wells | 1866-1946 | 1,326 | novelist and social commentator | 60%
|
T.S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | 750 | poet, critic, and publisher | 60%
|
D.H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | 2,219 | writer | 59%
|
John Richard Green | 1837-1883 | 1,156 | historian | 59%
|
Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | 3,095 | writer and poet | 59%
|
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806-1861 | 1,109 | poet and writer | 58%
|
George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | 2,332 | playwright and polemicist | 58%
|
Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | 3,095 | poet | 58%
|
Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | 2,930 | poet | 58%
|
Thomas Jackson | 1570/71-1646 | 669 | Church of England clergyman | 58%
|
Thomas Moore | 1779-1852 | 888 | poet | 58%
|
William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | 2,091 | poet | 58%
|
Francis Bacon | 1561-1626 | 4,757 | lord chancellor, politician, and philosopher | 57%
|
Henry More | 1614-1687 | 4,267 | philosopher, poet, and theologian | 57%
|
Nathaniel Bacon | bap. 1593, d. 1660 | 733 | politician and author | 57%
|
Samuel Richardson | bap. 1689, d. 1761 | 3,608 | printer and author | 57%
|
Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826 | 1,993 | revolutionary politician and president of the United States of America | 57%
|
Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 | 6,459 | poet | 56%
|
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | 4,761 | poet, critic, and philosopher | 56%
|
George Washington | 1732-1799 | 692 | revolutionary army officer and president of the United States of America | 55%
|
John Locke | 1632-1704 | 1,738 | philosopher | 55%
|
Thomas Washington | fl. 1585 | 962 | (none given) | 55%
|
William Morris | 1834-1896 | 1,546 | designer, author, and visionary socialist | 55%
|
Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790 | 931 | natural philosopher, writer, and revolutionary politician in America | 54%
|
Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | 976 | novelist and poet | 54%
|
John Harris | c1666-1719 | 1,028 | writer and lecturer on science | 54%
|
John Wilson | 1785-1854 | 767 | author and journalist | 54%
|
Thomas Hughes | 1822-1896 | 958 | social reformer and children's writer | 54%
|
Thomas Wilson | d. 1581 | 1,202 | humanist and administrator | 54%
|
Asa Gray | 1810-1888 | 766 | botanist | 53%
|
James Fenimore Cooper | 1789-1851 | 1,032 | novelist | 53%
|
John Donne | 1572-1631 | 2,038 | poet and Church of England clergyman | 53%
|
Thomas Cooper | c1517-1594 | 1,483 | theologian and bishop of Winchester | 53%
|
Thomas Gray | 1716-1771 | 1,343 | poet and literary scholar | 53%
|
Bayard Taylor | 1825-1878 | 822 | writer | 52%
|
Jeremy Taylor | d. 1667 | 1,940 | Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor and religious writer | 52%
|
John Taylor | 1578-1653 | 1,514 | poet | 52%
|
Richard Owen | 1804-1892 | 976 | comparative anatomist and palaeontologist | 52%
|
William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | 999 | short-story writer and novelist | 52%
|
William Robertson | 1721-1793 | 724 | historian and Church of Scotland minister | 52%
|
William Taylor | 1765-1836 | 1,475 | reviewer and translator | 52%
|
Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | 5,306 | poet | 51%
|
Henry Fielding | 1707-1754 | 2,743 | author and magistrate | 51%
|
Samuel Pepys | 1633-1703 | 2,033 | naval official and diarist | 51%
|
William Harrison | 1535-1593 | 1,001 | historian and topographer | 51%
|
Christopher Marlowe | ?1564-1593 | 1,281 | playwright and poet | 49%
|
John Ford | bap. 1586, d. a1653 | 744 | playwright | 49%
|
Thomas Hobbes | 1588-1679 | 2,408 | philosopher | 48%
|
Arthur Young | 1741-1820 | 879 | agricultural reformer and writer | 47%
|
Edward Young | bap. 1683, d. 1765 | 1,674 | writer | 47%
|
Herbert Spencer | 1820-1903 | 1,056 | philosopher, social theorist, and sociologist | 47%
|
Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888 | 1,200 | poet, writer, and inspector of schools | 47%
|
William S. Hamilton | 1788-1856 | 784 | philosopher | 47%
|
Anthony Trollope | 1815-1882 | 1,906 | novelist | 46%
|
Gavin Douglas | c1476-1522 | 4,485 | poet and bishop of Dunkeld | 46%
|
John Dryden | 1631-1700 | 9,309 | poet, playwright, and critic | 46%
|
Joseph Hall | 1574-1656 | 3,658 | bishop of Norwich, religious writer, and satirist | 46%
|
W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965 | 683 | writer and playwright | 46%
|
Arthur Golding | d. 1606 | 2,296 | translator | 45%
|
Jack London | 1876-1916 | 772 | writer, war correspondent, and agronomist | 45%
|
James Bell | d. ?1606 | 822 | translator | 45%
|
Noah Webster | 1758-1843 | 991 | lexicographer | 45%
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | 2,923 | lecturer and author | 45%
|
William Thackeray | 1811-1863 | 4,948 | novelist | 45%
|
Charles Lamb | 1775-1834 | 1,950 | essayist | 44%
|
Graham Greene | 1904-1991 | 858 | author | 44%
|
Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | 808 | master mariner and author | 44%
|
Robert Greene | bap. 1558, d. 1592 | 2,630 | writer and playwright | 44%
|
Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881 | 1,711 | prime minister and novelist | 43%
|
Duke of Wellington | 1769-1852 | 798 | army officer and prime minister | 43%
|
Edmund Spenser | ?1552-1599 | 6,307 | poet and administrator in Ireland | 43%
|
Isaac D'Israeli | 1766-1848 | 920 | writer | 43%
|
Jeremy Bentham | 1748-1832 | 2,050 | philosopher, jurist, and reformer | 43%
|
John Hill | bap. 1714, d. 1775 | 781 | physician and actor | 43%
|
Richard Burton | 1821-1890 | 1,106 | explorer and author | 43%
|
Robert Burton | 1577-1640 | 1,359 | writer | 43%
|
Sidney Baker | 1912-1976 | 651 | (none given) | 43%
|
W.H. Auden | 1907-1973 | 768 | poet and writer | 43%
|
Andrew of Wyntoun | c1350-c1422 | 1,396 | prior of St Serf's, Lochleven, and historian | 42%
|
Anthony Wood | 1632-1695 | 1,353 | antiquary | 42%
|
Gilbert Hay | c1397-c1465 | 1,176 | soldier and poet | 42%
|
John Bunyan | d. 1688 | 1,172 | author | 42%
|
John Ray | 1627-1705 | 3,006 | naturalist and theologian | 42%
|
William Turner | d. 1568 | 1,843 | naturalist and religious controversialist | 42%
|
David Hume | 1711-1776 | 1,187 | philosopher and historian | 41%
|
John Davies | ?1565-1618 | 1,010 | poet and writing-master | 41%
|
John Davies | 1625-1693 | 988 | translator | 41%
|
Myles Davies | 1662-?1719 | 870 | bibliographer | 41%
|
Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875 | 2,896 | novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist | 40%
|
George Daniel | 1616-1657 | 825 | poet | 40%
|
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | 1,404 | poet and professor of modern languages | 40%
|
Leslie Stephen | 1832-1904 | 671 | author, literary critic, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography | 40%
|
Samuel Daniel | ?1563-1619 | 1,156 | poet and historian | 40%
|
Thomas Browne | 1605-1682 | 4,146 | physician and author | 39%
|
William Ellis | c1700-1758 | 1,244 | agriculturist and writer | 39%
|
Izaak Walton | 1593-1683 | 837 | author and biographer | 38%
|
John Wesley | 1703-1791 | 1,683 | Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism | 38%
|
Henry Watts | 1815-1884 | 2,094 | chemist | 37%
|
Isaac Watts | 1674-1748 | 956 | Independent minister and writer | 37%
|
Matthew Hale | 1609-1676 | 1,085 | judge and writer | 37%
|
William Penn | 1644-1718 | 714 | Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania | 37%
|
Angell Day | fl. 1563-1595 | 655 | stationer and writer | 36%
|
William Caxton | 1415x24-1492 | 9,711 | printer, merchant, and diplomat | 36%
|
Edward Freeman | 1823-1892 | 1,977 | historian | 35%
|
Richard Eden | c1520-1576 | 2,287 | translator | 35%
|
Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 | 1,523 | writer | 34%
|
Henry Brooke | c1703-1783 | 1,099 | writer and playwright | 34%
|
Julian Huxley | 1887-1975 | 658 | zoologist and philosopher | 34%
|
Thomas Huxley | 1825-1895 | 2,569 | biologist and science educationist | 34%
|
Thomas Norton | d. 1584 | 1,187 | lawyer and writer | 34%
|
Edmund Burke | ?1730-1797 | 3,587 | politician and author | 33%
|
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896 | 1,052 | author | 33%
|
R.D. Blackmore | 1825-1900 | 969 | novelist and fruit farmer | 33%
|
Theophilus Gale | 1628-1679 | 881 | ejected minister and theologian | 33%
|
Thomas Stanley | 1625-1678 | 992 | poet and classical scholar | 33%
|
Abraham Fleming | c1552-1607 | 2,207 | author, literary editor, and Church of England clergyman | 32%
|
Edward H. Knight | 1824-1883 | 4,079 | patent lawyer and expert in mechanics | 32%
|
Gilbert Burnet | 1643-1715 | 1,477 | bishop of Salisbury and historian | 32%
|
John Norris | 1657-1712 | 1,286 | Church of England clergyman and philosopher | 32%
|
William Marshall | bap. 1745, d. 1818 | 1,355 | agricultural writer and land agent | 32%
|
Benjamin Robins | 1707-1751 | 1,000 | mathematician and military engineer | 31%
|
Edward Phillips | b. 1630 | 1,792 | writer and biographer | 31%
|
Edward Ward | 1667-1731 | 1,327 | satirist | 31%
|
Frederick Marryat | 1792-1848 | 2,476 | naval officer and novelist | 31%
|
John Bale | 1495-1563 | 1,252 | bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian | 31%
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | 1,832 | author | 31%
|
Nathaniel Ward | 1578-1652 | 654 | clergyman and compiler of a law code for Massachusetts | 31%
|
Thomas De Quincey | 1785-1859 | 1,657 | essayist | 31%
|
Thomas Fuller | 1607/8-1661 | 5,141 | Church of England clergyman | 31%
|
William Stewart | fl. 1499-1541 | 1,394 | chronicler and poet | 31%
|
Horace Walpole | 1717-1797 | 2,338 | author, politician, and patron of the arts | 30%
|
Walter Raleigh | 1554-1618 | 1,251 | courtier, explorer, and author | 30%
|
Ann Radcliffe | 1764-1823 | 1,239 | novelist | 29%
|
Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794 | 1,923 | historian | 29%
|
James Thomson | 1700-1748 | 1,326 | poet | 29%
|
John A. Thomson | 1861-1933 | 925 | (none given) | 29%
|
John Parkinson | 1566/7-1650 | 767 | apothecary and herbalist | 29%
|
Richard Steele | d. 1729 | 4,005 | writer and politician | 29%
|
Robert South | 1634-1716 | 1,043 | Church of England clergyman and theologian | 29%
|
Roger North | 1651-1734 | 1,197 | lawyer, politician, and writer | 29%
|
Thomas North | 1535-?1603 | 1,204 | translator | 29%
|
Thomas Thomson | 1773-1852 | 747 | chemist | 29%
|
Washington Irving | 1783-1859 | 2,592 | author | 29%
|
Daniel Rogers | 1573-1652 | 720 | Church of England clergyman | 28%
|
Francis Robinson | 1809-1882 | 1,008 | (none given) | 28%
|
Gabriel Harvey | c1552-1631 | 1,291 | scholar and writer | 28%
|
Leigh Hunt | 1784-1859 | 1,062 | poet, journalist, and literary critic | 28%
|
Randle Holme | 1627-1700 | 3,211 | herald painter | 28%
|
Robert Hunt | 1807-1887 | 902 | chemist and photographer | 28%
|
Samuel Rutherford | c1600-1661 | 918 | Church of Scotland minister and political theorist | 28%
|
Thomas Herbert | 1606-1682 | 2,060 | traveller and government official | 28%
|
Andrew Marvell | 1621-1678 | 1,286 | poet and politician | 27%
|
John Sinclair | 1754-1835 | 805 | agricultural improver, politician, and codifier of 'useful knowledge' | 27%
|
Joseph Priestley | 1733-1804 | 697 | theologian and natural philosopher | 27%
|
Alexander Montgomerie | c1550-1598 | 931 | poet and courtier | 26%
|
John Ash | 1724-1779 | 885 | lexicographer and grammarian | 26%
|
John Mason Good | 1764-1827 | 1,514 | physician and surgeon | 26%
|
John Ruskin | 1819-1900 | 3,186 | art critic and social critic | 26%
|
Nathan Bailey | d. 1742 | 3,723 | lexicographer and schoolmaster | 26%
|
Philip Bailey | 1816-1902 | 1,137 | poet | 26%
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894 | 969 | physician, teacher of anatomy, and writer | 25%
|
P.G. Wodehouse | 1881-1975 | 1,838 | writer | 25%
|
William Baldwin | fl. 1563 | 699 | author and printer | 25%
|
William Salmon | 1644-1713 | 927 | medical empiric and author | 25%
|
William Warner | d. 1609 | 1,478 | poet and lawyer | 25%
|
Henry Stephens | 1795-1874 | 948 | writer on agriculture | 24%
|
Robert Southey | 1774-1843 | 4,733 | poet and reviewer | 24%
|
Theodore Hook | 1788-1841 | 732 | writer and hoaxer | 24%
|
Elisha Kane | 1820-1857 | 1,711 | physician and Arctic explorer | 23%
|
Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810-1865 | 1,057 | novelist and short-story writer | 23%
|
George Chapman | ?1560-1634 | 3,116 | poet and playwright | 23%
|
Richard Bradley | ?1688-1732 | 2,135 | botanist and writer | 22%
|
Robert Hooke | 1635-1703 | 688 | natural philosopher | 22%
|
Sabine Baring-Gould | 1834-1924 | 805 | Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector | 22%
|
William Cowper | 1731-1800 | 5,864 | poet and letter-writer | 20%
|
Philip Stanhope | 1694-1773 | 751 | politician and diplomatist | 18%
|
Thomas Middleton | d. 1627 | 1,843 | playwright | 18%
|
Henry Hammond | 1605-1660 | 788 | Church of England clergyman and theologian | 17%
|
James Boswell | 1740-1795 | 1,034 | lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson | 17%
|
John Buchan | 1875-1940 | 1,055 | author, publisher, and governor-general of Canada | 17%
|
John Healey | c1585-c1616 | 849 | translator | 17%
|
Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768 | 1,534 | writer and Church of England clergyman | 17%
|
Nicholas Rowe | 1674-1718 | 783 | poet and playwright | 17%
|
Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | 716 | poet | 16%
|
John Henry Newman | 1801-1890 | 1,452 | theologian and cardinal | 16%
|
Joseph Hooker | 1817-1911 | 702 | botanist | 16%
|
Richard Hooker | 1554-1600 | 1,543 | theologian and philosopher | 16%
|
George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | 979 | poet and novelist | 15%
|
James Howell | ?1594-1666 | 2,243 | historian and political writer | 15%
|
John Gay | 1685-1732 | 1,061 | poet and playwright | 15%
|
Abraham Tucker | 1705-1774 | 1,210 | philosopher | 14%
|
John Fletcher | 1579-1625 | 2,108 | playwright | 14%
|
Joseph Butler | 1692-1752 | 810 | moral philosopher and theologian | 14%
|
King Alfred | c848-899 | 2,224 | king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons | 14%
|
Samuel Butler | d. 1680 | 1,653 | poet | 14%
|
Thomas Lodge | 1558-1625 | 971 | author and physician | 14%
|
William Dunbar | ?1460-?1530 | 2,508 | poet and courtier | 14%
|
William Gladstone | 1809-1898 | 1,063 | prime minister and author | 13%
|
Richard Sheridan | 1751-1816 | 849 | playwright and politician | 12%
|
Francis Beaumont | 1584-1616 | 987 | playwright | 11%
|
John Clare | 1793-1864 | 887 | poet, farm labourer, and naturalist | 10%
|
John Weever | d. 1632 | 694 | poet and antiquary | 10%
|
John Wilkins | 1614-1672 | 910 | theologian and natural philosopher | 10%
|
Thomas Hood | 1799-1845 | 1,237 | poet and humorist | 10%
|
Tobias Smollett | 1721-1771 | 2,580 | writer | 10%
|
David Brewster | 1781-1868 | 815 | natural philosopher and academic administrator | 9%
|
Geoffrey Fenton | c1539-1608 | 787 | translator and administrator in Ireland | 9%
|
Gervase Markham | ?1568-1637 | 2,468 | author | 9%
|
Nathaniel Fairfax | 1637-1690 | 781 | physician and antiquary | 9%
|
Oliver Goldsmith | ?1728-1774 | 4,469 | author | 9%
|
Philip Sidney | 1554-1586 | 3,314 | author and courtier | 9%
|
Richard Bentley | 1662-1742 | 962 | philologist and classical scholar | 9%
|
Robert Boyle | 1627-1691 | 3,178 | natural philosopher | 9%
|
Andrew Borde | c1490-1549 | 969 | physician and author | 8%
|
Richard Baxter | 1615-1691 | 1,775 | ejected minister and religious writer | 8%
|
Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881 | 6,724 | author, biographer, and historian | 8%
|
Allan Ramsay | 1684-1758 | 2,338 | poet | 7%
|
James Bryce | 1838-1922 | 676 | jurist, historian, and politician | 7%
|
John Nicholson | 1791-1851 | 890 | mechanical engineer | 7%
|
Peter Nicholson | 1765-1844 | 666 | architectural writer and mathematician | 7%
|
Robert Mayne | 1808-1868 | 1,991 | (none given) | 7%
|
Thomas Bowes | fl. 1579-1589 | 722 | translator | 7%
|
William Tyndale | c1494-1536 | 855 | translator of the Bible and religious reformer | 7%
|
Benjamin Jowett | 1817-1893 | 1,971 | master of Balliol College | 6%
|
Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873 | 3,430 | writer and politician | 6%
|
George Berkeley | 1685-1753 | 1,748 | Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher | 6%
|
Henry Power | c1626-1668 | 732 | natural philosopher and physician | 6%
|
John Addington Symonds | 1840-1893 | 736 | writer and advocate of sexual reform | 6%
|
John Heywood | c1496-c1578 | 1,882 | playwright and epigrammatist | 6%
|
John Higgins | b. c1544 | 688 | poet and linguist | 6%
|
Michael Drayton | 1536-1631 | 2,244 | poet | 6%
|
Philemon Holland | 1552-1637 | 8,021 | translator | 6%
|
Robert Sanderson | 1587-1663 | 781 | bishop of Lincoln | 6%
|
Stephen Hawes | b. c1474 | 1,065 | poet | 6%
|
Thomas Heywood | c1573-1641 | 2,406 | playwright and poet | 6%
|
Thomas Malory | d. 1471 | 1,833 | author | 6%
|
William Langland | c1325-c1390 | 5,655 | poet | 6%
|
3rd Earl of Shaftesbury | 1671-1713 | 776 | philosopher and author | 5%
|
George Meredith | 1828-1909 | 1,892 | novelist and poet | 5%
|
Jedidiah Morse | 1761-1826 | 1,056 | geographer and clergyman | 5%
|
John Speed | d. 1629 | 1,379 | historian and cartographer | 5%
|
Joseph Addison | 1672-1719 | 4,334 | writer and politician | 5%
|
Mary Wortley Montagu | bap. 1689, d. 1762 | 928 | writer | 5%
|
Richard Montagu | bap. 1575, d. 1641 | 1,059 | bishop of Norwich and religious controversialist | 5%
|
William Congreve | 1670-1729 | 784 | playwright and poet | 5%
|
William H. Smyth | 1788-1865 | 1,961 | naval officer and surveyor | 5%
|
2nd Earl of Monmouth | 1596-1661 | 1,018 | translator | 4%
|
Abraham Cowley | 1618-1667 | 1,117 | poet | 4%
|
John Foxe | ?1517-1587 | 1,584 | martyrologist | 4%
|
John Galsworthy | 1867-1933 | 901 | novelist and playwright | 4%
|
John Gower | d. 1408 | 4,874 | poet | 4%
|
John Lyly | 1554-1606 | 1,584 | writer and playwright | 4%
|
John Marston | bap. 1576, d. 1634 | 1,962 | poet and playwright | 4%
|
John Wyclif | d. 1384 | 3,044 | theologian, philosopher, and religious reformer | 4%
|
Matthew Prior | 1664-1721 | 1,327 | poet and diplomat | 4%
|
Richard Carew | 1555-1620 | 1,061 | antiquary and poet | 4%
|
Richard Tomlinson | fl. 1657 | 955 | (none given) | 4%
|
Robert Copland | fl. 1505-1547 | 1,074 | translator and printer | 4%
|
Thomas Babington Macaulay | 1800-1859 | 5,176 | historian, essayist, and poet | 4%
|
Thomas Dekker | c1572-1632 | 2,288 | playwright and pamphleteer | 4%
|
William Carpenter | 1813-1885 | 662 | biologist and university administrator | 4%
|
William Stubbs | 1825-1901 | 666 | historian and bishop of Oxford | 4%
|
Algernon Swinburne | 1837-1909 | 1,184 | poet and literary reviewer | 3%
|
Charles Cotton | 1630-1687 | 1,260 | poet and translator | 3%
|
Charles Reade | 1814-1884 | 659 | novelist and playwright | 3%
|
Earl of Surrey | ?1517-1547 | 816 | poet and soldier | 3%
|
Edward Peacock | 1831-1915 | 993 | (none given) | 3%
|
Ephraim Chambers | ?1680-1740 | 3,772 | encyclopaedist | 3%
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Eric Partridge | 1894-1979 | 676 | lexicographer and etymologist | 3%
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George Wither | 1588-1667 | 817 | poet | 3%
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Hugh Latimer | c1485-1555 | 951 | bishop of Worcester, preacher, and protestant martyr | 3%
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James Hogg | d. 1835 | 879 | poet and novelist | 3%
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James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891 | 2,177 | author and diplomat | 3%
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John Blackie | 1809-1895 | 853 | classical and Scottish Gaelic scholar | 3%
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John C. Atkinson | 1814-1900 | 798 | author and antiquary | 3%
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John Evelyn | 1620-1706 | 4,937 | diarist and writer | 3%
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John Rolland | fl. 1528-1580 | 749 | poet | 3%
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John Smeaton | 1724-1792 | 884 | civil engineer | 3%
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Miles Coverdale | 1488-1569 | 910 | Bible translator and bishop of Exeter | 3%
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Philip Massinger | 1583-1640 | 1,363 | playwright | 3%
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Raphael Holinshed | c1525-?1580 | 904 | historian | 3%
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Richard Grafton | c1511-1573 | 1,407 | printer and historian | 3%
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Samuel Rowlands | fl. 1598-1628 | 710 | satirist | 3%
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William Blackstone | 1723-1780 | 2,182 | legal writer and judge | 3%
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William Cruise | d. 1824 | 804 | legal writer | 3%
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William Paley | 1743-1805 | 675 | theologian and moralist | 3%
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William Prescott | 1796-1859 | 721 | (none given) | 3%
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William Prynne | 1600-1669 | 1,228 | pamphleteer and lawyer | 3%
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William Warburton | 1698-1779 | 698 | bishop of Gloucester and religious controversialist | 3%
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Alexander Barclay | c1484-1552 | 1,387 | poet and clergyman | 2%
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Fanny Burney | 1752-1840 | 2,490 | writer | 2%
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John Bulwer | bap. 1606, d. 1656 | 898 | medical practitioner and writer on deafness and on gesture | 2%
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John Jamieson | 1759-1838 | 1,841 | antiquary and philologist | 2%
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John Morley | 1838-1923 | 1,164 | politician and writer | 2%
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John Mortimer | ?1656-1736 | 881 | writer on agriculture | 2%
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John Trevisa | c1342-?1402 | 9,090 | translator | 2%
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Nicholas Udall | 1504-1556 | 2,887 | schoolmaster and playwright | 2%
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Reginald Pecock | c1392-?1459 | 2,260 | bishop of Chichester and religious author | 2%
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Richard Rolle | a1310-1349 | 2,582 | hermit and religious author | 2%
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Samuel Crockett | 1859-1914 | 870 | Free Church of Scotland minister and novelist | 2%
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Samuel Foote | bap. 1721, d. 1777 | 1,209 | actor and playwright | 2%
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Thomas Hearne | d. 1735 | 927 | antiquary and diarist | 2%
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Thomas Nashe | d. c1601 | 3,501 | writer | 2%
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William Drummond | 1585-1649 | 868 | poet and pamphleteer | 2%
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William Kirby | 1759-1850 | 1,912 | entomologist and naturalist | 2%
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William Temple | 1628-1699 | 714 | diplomat and author | 2%
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2nd Baron Berners | c1467-1533 | 3,872 | soldier, diplomat, and translator | 1%
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Ælfric of Eynsham | c950-c1010 | 4,509 | Benedictine abbot of Eynsham and scholar | 1%
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Andrew Ure | 1778-1857 | 1,915 | chemist | 1%
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Archibald Lovell | fl. 1663-1687 | 813 | (none given) | 1%
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Arthur Helps | 1813-1875 | 682 | public servant and author | 1%
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Charles Lyell | 1797-1875 | 1,152 | geologist | 1%
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David Lindsay | c1486-1555 | 1,057 | writer and herald | 1%
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Edward Grimeston | fl. 1604-1634 | 1,048 | translator | 1%
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Edward Pusey | 1800-1882 | 964 | Church of England clergyman and theologian | 1%
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Edward Topsell | d. 1625 | 2,629 | Church of England clergyman and author | 1%
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Francis Grose | d. 1791 | 1,312 | antiquary | 1%
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Francis Quarles | 1592-1644 | 1,461 | poet | 1%
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Frederic Farrar | 1831-1903 | 1,462 | dean of Canterbury, novelist, and philologist | 1%
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Frederick Elworthy | 1830-1907 | 795 | philologist and antiquary | 1%
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George A. Sala | 1828-1895 | 1,320 | journalist | 1%
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George Faber | 1773-1854 | 724 | Church of England clergyman and religious writer | 1%
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George Grote | 1794-1871 | 1,165 | historian and politician | 1%
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Harriet Martineau | 1802-1876 | 1,632 | writer and journalist | 1%
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Henry Hallam | 1777-1859 | 1,052 | historian | 1%
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Henry Lovelich | fl. 1450 | 818 | poet | 1%
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Henry Mayhew | 1812-1887 | 1,189 | author and social reformer | 1%
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James A. Froude | 1818-1894 | 1,675 | historian and man of letters | 1%
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James Dana | 1813-1895 | 2,202 | geologist, zoologist, and teacher | 1%
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James Mabbe | d. ?1642 | 856 | translator | 1%
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John Barbour | c1330-1395 | 2,567 | ecclesiastic and verse historian | 1%
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John Fitzherbert | d. 1531 | 1,437 | (none given) | 1%
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John Florio | 1553-1625 | 3,875 | author and teacher of languages | 1%
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John Fryer | d. 1733 | 994 | traveller and writer | 1%
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John Galt | 1779-1839 | 1,249 | novelist | 1%
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John Gaule | 1603/4-1687 | 898 | Church of England clergyman and author | 1%
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John Gerard | c1545-1612 | 1,681 | herbalist | 1%
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John Loudon | 1783-1843 | 1,372 | landscape gardener and horticultural writer | 1%
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John Motley | 1814-1877 | 649 | historian and diplomat | 1%
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John Skelton | c1460-1529 | 2,247 | poet | 1%
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John Skene | c1540-1617 | 770 | jurist | 1%
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John Strype | 1643-1737 | 767 | historian and biographer | 1%
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John Trapp | 1601-1669 | 1,261 | Church of England clergyman and writer on theology | 1%
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John Tyndall | 1820-1893 | 2,200 | physicist and mountaineer | 1%
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Joseph Moxon | 1627-1691 | 1,753 | printer and globe maker | 1%
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Kenelm Digby | 1603-1665 | 736 | natural philosopher and courtier | 1%
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Layamon | fl. 1250 | 5,684 | poet | 1%
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Mary Russell Mitford | 1787-1855 | 1,135 | playwright and writer | 1%
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Nehemiah Grew | a1641-1712 | 1,399 | botanist and physician | 1%
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Nicholas Breton | ?1555-c1626 | 820 | poet | 1%
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Nicholas Culpeper | 1616-1654 | 893 | physician and astrologer | 1%
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Ouida | 1839-1908 | 822 | novelist | 1%
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Owen Felltham | ?1602-1668 | 931 | essayist and poet | 1%
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Peter Simmonds | 1814-1897 | 1,167 | newsagent and journalist | 1%
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Philip Stubbes | c1555-c1610 | 788 | pamphleteer | 1%
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Randle Cotgrave | fl. 1587-?1630 | 5,531 | lexicographer | 1%
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Richard Brome | c1590-1652 | 953 | playwright | 1%
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Richard Henry Dana | 1815-1882 | 812 | lawyer and author | 1%
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Richard Kirwan | 1733-1812 | 834 | chemist and mineralogist | 1%
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Richard Surflet | fl. 1600-1616 | 953 | translator | 1%
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Robert Forby | 1759-1825 | 854 | philologist | 1%
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Robert Henryson | d. c1490 | 1,034 | poet | 1%
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Robert Lindsay | c1532-c1586 | 779 | historian | 1%
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Robert Lovell | ?1630-1690 | 775 | naturalist | 1%
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Robert Plot | bap. 1640, d. 1696 | 887 | naturalist and antiquary | 1%
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Roger Ascham | d. 1568 | 942 | author and royal tutor | 1%
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Roger L'Estrange | 1616-1704 | 1,127 | author and press censor | 1%
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Samuel Purchas | bap. 1577, d. 1626 | 2,148 | geographical editor and compiler and Church of England clergyman | 1%
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Samuel Smiles | 1812-1904 | 763 | biographer and didact | 1%
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Thomas Becon | 1512/13-1567 | 800 | theologian and Church of England clergyman | 1%
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Thomas Blount | 1618-1679 | 3,842 | antiquary and lexicographer | 1%
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Thomas D'Urfey | ?1653-1723 | 937 | playwright and writer | 1%
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Thomas Martyn | 1735-1825 | 882 | botanist | 1%
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Thomas Pennant | 1726-1798 | 1,719 | naturalist, traveller, and writer | 1%
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Thomas Shadwell | c1640-1692 | 725 | playwright and poet | 1%
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Thomas Starkey | c1498-1538 | 725 | humanist and royal servant | 1%
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Thomas Tusser | c1524-1580 | 1,130 | writer on agriculture and poet | 1%
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Thomas Urquhart | 1611-1660 | 1,505 | author and translator | 1%
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Walter Besant | 1836-1901 | 966 | writer and campaigner for authors' rights | 1%
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William Dampier | 1651-1715 | 1,098 | buccaneer and explorer | 1%
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William Lithgow | 1582-c1645 | 1,690 | traveller | 1%
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William Petty | 1623-1687 | 722 | natural philosopher and administrator in Ireland | 1%
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William Withering | 1741-1799 | 897 | physician and botanist | 1%
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Barnabe Googe | 1540-1594 | 1,860 | poet and translator | 0%
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Charlotte Yonge | 1823-1901 | 1,394 | novelist | 0%
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Claudius Hollyband | fl. 1573-1583 | 732 | linguist and writer | 0%
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Colley Cibber | 1671-1757 | 701 | actor, writer, and theatre manager | 0%
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Connop Thirlwall | 1797-1875 | 1,093 | historian and bishop of St David's | 0%
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Edmund Hickeringill | d. 1708 | 696 | Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist | 0%
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Edward Stillingfleet | 1635-1699 | 821 | bishop of Worcester and theologian | 0%
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Elliott Coues | 1842-1889 | 669 | naturalist and historian | 0%
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Fynes Moryson | ?1566-1630 | 1,418 | traveller and writer | 0%
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George Crabbe | 1754-1832 | 840 | poet and Church of England clergyman | 0%
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George Gascoigne | d. 1577 | 1,585 | author and soldier | 0%
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George Puttenham | 1529-?1591 | 1,181 | writer and literary critic | 0%
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George Rolleston | 1829-1881 | 957 | physician and physiologist | 0%
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George Sandys | 1578-1644 | 1,313 | writer and traveller | 0%
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George Turberville | c1543-c1597 | 1,027 | poet and translator | 0%
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Hary | c1440-c1492 | 1,684 | poet | 0%
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Helkiah Crooke | 1576-1648 | 1,050 | physician and anatomist | 0%
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Henry Cockeram | fl. 1623-1658 | 1,561 | lexicographer | 0%
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Henry Hexham | fl. 1601-1650 | 868 | soldier and author | 0%
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Henry Lyte | 1529-1607 | 1,837 | botanist and antiquary | 0%
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Henry Milman | 1791-1868 | 874 | historian and dean of St Paul's | 0%
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Henry Wotton | 1568-1639 | 770 | diplomat and writer | 0%
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James Dalrymple | fl. c1596 | 1,212 | (none given) | 0%
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James Halliwell | 1820-1889 | 1,006 | antiquary and literary scholar | 0%
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James Yonge | fl. 1405-1434 | 759 | translator | 0%
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John Arbuthnot | bap. 1667, d. 1735 | 1,070 | physician and satirist | 0%
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John Banister | 1532/3-?1610 | 895 | surgeon | 0%
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John Bellenden | c1495-a1548 | 1,487 | poet and translator | 0%
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John Capgrave | 1393-1464 | 1,181 | prior of Bishop's Lynn, theologian, and historian | 0%
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John Daus | c1516-1602 | 1,677 | schoolmaster and translator | 0%
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John Lindley | 1799-1865 | 3,338 | botanist and horticulturist | 0%
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John Lydgate | c1370-c1449 | 7,249 | poet and prior of Hatfield Regis | 0%
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John Palsgrave | d. 1554 | 5,384 | teacher and scholar of languages | 0%
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John Worlidge | d. 1693 | 672 | writer on agriculture | 0%
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Joseph Glanvill | 1636-1680 | 861 | Church of England clergyman | 0%
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Joshua Sylvester | d. 1618 | 2,884 | poet and translator | 0%
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Maria Edgeworth | 1768-1849 | 1,426 | novelist and educationist | 0%
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Mark Pattison | 1813-1884 | 803 | college head and scholar | 0%
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Mary Braddon | 1835-1915 | 1,442 | novelist | 0%
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Narcissus Luttrell | 1657-1732 | 817 | annalist and book collector | 0%
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Osbern Bokenham | c1393-c1464 | 679 | poet and Augustinian friar | 0%
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Peter Heylyn | 1599-1662 | 1,044 | Church of England clergyman and historian | 0%
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Peter Levens | fl. 1552-1587 | 1,183 | lexicographer | 0%
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Peter Motteux | 1663-1718 | 797 | journalist and translator | 0%
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Ralph Cudworth | 1617-1688 | 1,285 | philosopher and theologian | 0%
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Richard Allestree | d. 1681 | 699 | Church of England clergyman | 0%
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Richard Brathwait | ?1588-1673 | 1,461 | poet and writer | 0%
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Richard Heslop | 1842-1916 | 738 | (none given) | 0%
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Richard Huloet | fl. 1552 | 1,841 | lexicographer | 0%
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Richard Knolles | d. 1610 | 817 | historian and translator | 0%
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Richard Mulcaster | ?1532-1611 | 796 | schoolmaster and author | 0%
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Richard Stanyhurst | 1547-1618 | 1,782 | literary scholar and translator | 0%
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Robert Fabyan | d. 1513 | 1,699 | chronicler | 0%
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Robert Mannyng | d. c1338 | 4,484 | poet and historian | 0%
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Robert Record | c1512-1558 | 784 | mathematician | 0%
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Robley Dunglison | 1798-1869 | 956 | physician and medical writer | 0%
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Rolf Boldrewood | 1826-1915 | 1,048 | novelist | 0%
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R.S. Surtees | 1805-1864 | 659 | author | 0%
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Samuel Hieron | d. 1617 | 762 | Church of England clergyman and devotional writer | 0%
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Samuel Sturmy | 1633-1669 | 665 | writer on seamanship | 0%
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T. Clifford Allbutt | 1836-1925 | 3,263 | physician | 0%
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Thomas Blundeville | fl. 1561 | 751 | author and translator | 0%
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Thomas Drant | c1540-1578 | 757 | poet and Church of England clergyman | 0%
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Thomas Elyot | c1490-1546 | 2,601 | humanist and diplomat | 0%
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Thomas Hoccleve | c1367-1426 | 1,319 | poet and clerk | 0%
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Thomas Phaer | ?1510-1560 | 726 | translator and physician | 0%
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Walter Charleton | 1620-1707 | 791 | physician and natural philosopher | 0%
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Walter Savage Landor | 1775-1864 | 828 | poet and author | 0%
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William Bonde | d. 1530 | 2,216 | Bridgettine monk and author | 0%
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William Davenant | 1606-1668 | 650 | poet, playwright, and theatre manager | 0%
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William Dean Howells | 1837-1920 | 1,027 | author | 0%
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William Falconer | 1732-1770 | 1,366 | poet and lexicographer | 0%
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William Fulke | d. 1589 | 1,039 | theologian and college head | 0%
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William Lambarde | 1536-1601 | 919 | antiquary and lawyer | 0%
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William T. Brande | 1788-1866 | 896 | chemist | 0%
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