John Talman FSA (July 1677, King's Street, Westminster – 3 November 1726, London) was a British antiquary and art collector. He was the eldest son of William Talman and his wife Hannah. From 1709 to 1717 he toured in Italy, collecting antiquities, becoming friends with the antiquarian pope Clement XI and enjoying the freedom to practice his Catholicism. On his return, he was a founder-member of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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George Vertue was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.
John Nichols was an English printer, author and antiquary. He is remembered as an influential editor of the Gentleman's Magazine for nearly 40 years; author of a monumental county history of Leicestershire; author of two compendia of biographical material relating to his literary contemporaries; and as one of the agents behind the first complete publication of Domesday Book in 1783.
William Oldys was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.
Richard Carew was a British translator and antiquary. He is best known for his county history, Survey of Cornwall (1602).
William Worcester, also called William of Worcester, William Worcestre or William Botoner was an English topographer, antiquary and chronicler.
William Talman (1650–1719) was an English architect and landscape designer.
Sir Henry Ellis was an English librarian and antiquarian, for a long period principal librarian at the British Museum.
Francis Thynne was an English antiquary and an officer of arms at the College of Arms.
John Bagford was an English antiquarian, writer, bibliographer, ballad-collector, bookseller, and biblioclast.
William Bennet was Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, and an antiquary.
George Clement Boase was an English bibliographer and antiquary.
William Edward Armytage Axon was an English librarian, antiquary and journalist for the Manchester Guardian. He contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography under his initials W. E. A. A. He was also a notable vegetarianism activist.
During the early part of the 17th century, and persisting in some form into the early 18th century, there were a number of proposals for an English Academy: some form of learned institution, conceived as having royal backing and a leading role in the intellectual life of the nation. Definite calls for an English Academy came in 1617, based on the Italian model dating back to the 16th century; they were followed up later, after the 1635 founding of the French Académie, by John Dryden (1664), John Evelyn (1665), and Daniel Defoe (1697).
Joseph John Skelton (1783–1871) was an English engraver.
James Bindley (1737–1818) was an English official and antiquary, known as a book collector.
William Pryce was a British medical man, known as an antiquary, a promoter of the Cornish language and a writer on mining in Cornwall.
Thomas Rackett (1757–1840) was an English clergyman, known as an antiquary.
James Hill was an English barrister and antiquary.
Richard Topham (1671–1730) was an English landowner and politician, Member of Parliament for New Windsor from 1698 to 1713. He is known also as a collector.
Edward Holmes Jewitt (1849–1929) was a Pre-Raphaelite artist working in stained glass and other media. He was one of the two chief designers, along with Carl Almquist, for the Lancaster firm of Shrigley and Hunt, producers of stained-glass windows and church-fittings. In recent years his work has begun to be studied and admired, though claims that he was a genius have not gone uncontested.
