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