Nathan Bailey, was an English philologist and lexicographer. He was the author of several dictionaries, including his Universal Etymological Dictionary, which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum was the primary resource mined by Samuel Johnson for his Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
William Webster (1689–1758) was a British priest in the Church of England and a theological writer.
John Clarke (1682–1757) was an English natural philosopher and Dean of Salisbury from 1728 to his death in 1757.
Robert Beaumont was Master of Trinity College Cambridge from 1561 to 1567 and twice Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. During this time, he commissioned Hans Eworth to copy the 1537 Hans Holbein portrait of King Henry VIII. This copy was bequeathed to Trinity College where it hangs to this day.
Michel Maittaire was a French-born classical scholar and bibliographer in England, and a tutor to Lord Philip Stanhope. He edited an edition of Quintus Curtius Rufus, later owned by Thomas Jefferson. His works included a grammar of English (1712).
The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries run by English Dissenters, that is, those who did not conform to the Church of England. They formed a significant part of England's educational systems from the mid-seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
The New College at Hackney was a dissenting academy set up in Hackney in April 1786 by the social and political reformer Richard Price and others; Hackney at that time was a village on the outskirts of London, by Unitarians. It was in existence from 1786 to 1796. The writer William Hazlitt was among its pupils, sent aged 15 to prepare for the Unitarian ministry, and some of the best-known Dissenting intellectuals spent time on its staff.
William Finch was an English clergyman, Bampton lecturer in 1797.
David Erskine Baker was an English writer on drama.
Thomas Baker was an English dramatist and lawyer.
John Eames was an English dissenting tutor.
John Mottley (1692–1750) was an English writer, known as a dramatist, biographer, and compiler of jokes.
William George was an English churchman and academic, Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1743 and Dean of Lincoln from 1748.
The Englishman's Library was an English book series of the 1840s, a venture of the publisher James Burns. It ran eventually to 31 volumes.
Newcome's School was a fashionable boys' school in Hackney, then to the east of London, founded in the early 18th century. A number of prominent Whig families sent their sons there. The school closed in 1815, and the buildings were gutted in 1820. In 1825 the London Orphan Asylum opened on the site. Today the Clapton Girls' Academy is located here.
Charles Bernard was an English surgeon, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and master of the Barber Surgeons' Company in 1703.
