Susannah Rickman (née Postlethwaite; d. 1836): Married John Rickman in 1805.

John Rickman (1771–1840): Statistician. Only son of Thomas Rickman, vicar of Newburn, Northumberland. Educated at Guildford Grammar School (1781–1785) and Oxford (matric. Magdalen Hall, 1788, and migrated to Lincoln College, BA 1792). After graduation he joined his father, who had retired to live in Christchurch, Hampshire. Rickman worked as a private tutor and read widely in economics. He edited the Commercial, Agricultural and Manufacturer’s Magazine (until 1801). In 1796 he wrote a private paper in which he argued for the benefits to the nation of a census.

Lupton Relfe (1798–1845): Publisher, based at 13, Cornhill, London, and son of the musician Lupton Relfe (d. 1805). Relfe started his firm in about 1822 and brought out the early numbers (1823–1827) of the annual Friendship’s Offering. Southey, who contributed poems to the 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829 issues, corresponded with Relfe in a professional capacity.

Samuel Reid (c. 1775–1821): A Bristol friend of Southey’s; probably the younger brother of the insurance broker William Reid (b. 1774). Sam Reid had intended to pursue a career as a Unitarian minister, but abandoned it after a crisis of faith. In 1806 he moved to Liverpool, where he worked as a private tutor.

Susan Reeve (1788–1853): The daughter of the Unitarian hymn-writer, minister and manufacturer John Taylor (1750–1826; DNB) and his wife Susanna (1755–1823; DNB). She married Reeve in 1807. Of their three children, only one survived infancy: Henry Reeve (1813–1895; DNB), later editor of the Edinburgh Review.

Henry Reeve (1780–1814): Physician. A native of Hadleigh, Suffolk, he became acquainted with Henry Herbert Southey while studying under the Norwich surgeon Philip Meadows Martineau in 1796–1800. He proceeded to Edinburgh University in 1800–1803, a move that probably inspired Henry Herbert Southey’s decision to attend Edinburgh. After a prolonged Continental tour in 1805–1806, he set up practice in Norwich.

Thomas Rees (1777–1864): Unitarian minister and writer on theological history. He was the younger brother of Owen Rees. Southey corresponded with him in 1809 over the Annual Review, which Rees edited for that year.

Owen Rees (1770–1837): Publisher and bookseller. He was born at Geli-gron, Wales, eldest brother of Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister and writer on theological history. Owen Rees migrated to Bristol where he became a bookseller. He later moved to London and in 1797 was taken into partnership by the publisher Thomas Norton Longman. From 1799 Longman and Rees became Southey’s main publishers. Rees retired from the business in early 1837.

William Owen Pughe (1759–1835): Lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquarian and poet. The son of John Owen, he adopted the surname Pughe in 1806 after inheriting property from a relative. A leading member of the Society of Gwyneddigion and the Society of the Cymmrodorion, his publications included: The Heroic Elegies of Llywarch Hen (1792), The Myvyrian Archaiology (1801, 1807) and The Cambrian Biography (1803). In 1796–1797, Southey and Pughe engaged in a (pseudonymous) debate about the Welsh language in the pages of the Monthly Magazine.

George Walter Prosser (b. 1796): Major in the infantry from 1826, and author of Past and Present State of Fortifications in Europe (1839). He became Superintendent of Studies at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1842 and was Lieutenant-Governor of that organisation 1854–1857, before joining the 3rd Regiment of Foot. Southey met him when he stayed at Keswick in 1827 and wrote to him that year, thanking him for material for his proposed memoir of James Wolfe (1727–1759; DNB) and exchanging family news.