John Harris (1756–1846): Publisher, who mainly specialised in juvenile books. In 1813, in collaboration with C. J. Barrington, he ventured into new territory and suggested that Southey should take up the continuations of John Campbell’s (1708–1775; DNB), Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen (1742–1744). Southey immediately declined the offer on the grounds of his inadequate knowledge of the subject.

Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855): Writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born in Valdagno, Italy, the son of the historian, novelist and playwright, Francis Hare-Naylor (1753–1815; DNB) and his wife Georgiana (c. 1755–1806). His maternal aunt, Anna Maria (1748–1829; DNB), was the widow of the orientalist Sir William Jones (1746–1794; DNB). The family returned to England in 1799. What became a lifelong interest in German literature and scholarship began with Hare’s visit to Weimar in 1804. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1812, graduated B.A.

Francis George Hare (1786–1842): Brother of Julius Hare and Augustus William Hare (1792–1834; DNB), clergyman, tutor at New College, Oxford, and historian. The brothers were the sons of Francis Hare-Naylor (1753–1815; DNB), historian, novelist and playwright. Francis George Hare lived mostly on the Continent and was a close friend of Walter Savage Landor. He visited Southey at Keswick in 1827; Southey commented ‘Never did I see a man possessed of such exuberant spirits’.

Samuel Carter Hall (1800–1889): Journal editor and writer. He was born at Geneva barracks, County Waterford, where his father, Robert Hall (1753–1836), was an officer in the Devon and Cornwall Fencibles. In c. 1802 the family moved to Topsham in Devon but later returned to Ireland. Hall developed an early interest in literature and the arts. His first poem was occasioned by the death of his eldest brother, Revis, at the battle of Albuera in 1811. In 1822 Hall moved to London.

Justus Hiddes Halbertsma (1789–1869): Minister in the Mennonite Church in the Netherlands and leading figure in the creation of a literary tradition in West Frisian. He was born in Grou in Friesland, the son of a baker, and trained at the Mennonite seminary in Amsterdam 1807–1813, before becoming a Minister in Bolsward 1814–1821 and Deventer 1822–1856. Halberstma and his two brothers issued the first collection of folk tales in Western Frisian, De Lapekoer fan Gabe Skroar, in 1822, and the collection was reissued and expanded throughout his lifetime.

John Guthrie (d. 1824): Bookseller, originally from Aberdeenshire he moved to Edinburgh where he was a founder of the firm Tait & Guthrie. In autumn 1803 Henry Herbert Southey lodged with him at 2 Nicolson St.

John Matthew Gutch (1776–1861): Educated at Christ’s Hospital with Coleridge and Lamb and later the owner and printer of Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 1803–1844. He also printed Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (1817). Gutch was an enthusiastic collector of antiquarian books, and major sales from his library occurred in 1810, 1812, 1817 and 1858.

Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847): Member of the Gurney family of Quakers and bankers, based in Norwich. He became a partner in the family bank in 1805 and soon came to play a leading role in its operations. However, his sister was the prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845; DNB) and he spent much of his life campaigning to help prisoners, abolish capital punishment and end the slave trade. Gurney was also a key spokesman for evangelicalism within Quakerism.

Thomas Grenville (1755–1846): Charles Watkin Williams Wynn’s uncle. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1806–1807.

Anne Grant (1755–1838): Scottish poet and author, best known for Memoirs of an American Lady (1809) – a work that was greatly admired by Southey. Born Ann Macvicar, she grew up mainly in New York and Vermont, before her family moved back to Scotland in 1768. In 1778 she married a clergyman, James Grant, and after his death in 1801 supported herself from her writings and by taking in pupils. She was a prominent figure in Edinburgh literary life and Southey met her when he visited the city on 17–18 August 1819. They later corresponded briefly on literary matters.