Founder of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift among the members. Arbuthnot authored a series of pamphlets originating the fictional figure John Bull, the personification of English national character.

See Burney, Fanny.

Émigré French general and adjutant to General Lafayette. In 1793 D'Arblay married Fanny Burney

Lucius Apuleius, also known as Madaurensis, after Madaura in Africa, where he was born, authored The Golden Ass (or Metamorphosis), a darkly comic tale or prototypical novel, which contains a version of the story of Cupid and Psyche.

Greek philosopher and mystic from the town of Tyana, now part of Turkey. He was author of a life of Pythagoras and is associated with Neopythagorean thought.

In classical mythology, the Greek god of the sun, music, poetry, prophesy, and medicine. He is the son of Zeus and his prophetic powers are expressed through the Delphic Oracle.

Roman politician, general, triumvir, and relative of Julius Caesar, known presently as "Mark Antony." Antony played a large role in the shifting of the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, forming a three-man dictatorship with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian known as the Second Triumvirate following the assassination of Caesar. Although Antony married Octavian's sister, Octavia, he continued his love affair with Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

The arch-conservative Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner, founded by George Canning and a few friends, was published from 1797-1798, edited by William Gifford. On its demise it was followed by the less effective Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor (1798-1821). These periodicals lampooned not only "Jacobins," that is, supporters of the French revolution, and other radicals, but Dissenters, Catholics, abolitionists, Whigs, those who would educate the poor, and many other moderate groups as well.

A noteworthy eighteenth-century poet, his best known works include the popular epistle, The New Bath Guide (1766) and The Farmer's Daughter, a Poetical Tale (1795).

Succeeded his father Arthur Annesley, first Earl of Mountnorris, in 1816.