Richard William Tighe (1744–1828): A member of the Tighe family of Rossanna, County Wicklow, and uncle of the poet Mary Tighe (1772–1810; DNB). He was the author of Psalms and Hymns (1789) and of other sermons and religious tracts. In 1821 he sent Southey a copy of his biography of the devotional writer and non-juror William Law (1686–1761; DNB).

James Webbe Tobin (1767–1814): Abolitionist son of a Nevis sugar planter, Tobin became friends with Coleridge and Wordsworth, whom he may have visited in 1797 in Somerset. In Bristol he befriended Humphry Davy and participated in the nitrous oxide experiments at Thomas Beddoes’s Pneumatic Institution. A prospective Pantisocrat, Tobin later contributed five poems to the second volume of Southey’s Annual Anthology and urged Southey to produce a third.

Samuel Tillbrook (1784–1835): Anglican clergyman, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1810–1828, and later Rector of Freckenham, Suffolk, 1829–1835. Tillbrook was on good terms with Wordsworth, near whose home at Rydal he purchased a cottage, the ‘Ivy Cot’. Southey corresponded with him over a number of charitable projects, including plans to help James Dusautoy and Robert Bloomfield. Tillbrook also published an extended critique of Southey’s use of hexameters in A Vision of Judgement (1821).

George Ticknor (1791–1871): Writer, first Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard, and co-founder of the Boston Public Library. Born in Boston, he was educated at Dartmouth College and later studied for the Massachusetts Bar. Finding the law uncongenial, he decided to pursue his studies and visited Europe from 1815 to 1819, for some of this time accompanied by his friend Edward Everett. The two enrolled at the University of Göttingen; while there Ticknor was offered a newly created chair in French and Spanish at Harvard.

William Thorp (1727–1800): Well-known hosier in Oxford, with a shop in Broad Street; Mayor of Oxford, 1775–6 and 1789–90. Thorp and his son and namesake, William Thorp (1762–1835), Vicar of Sandfield, 1807–35, were friends of Southey’s during his time at Oxford.

Treuttel and Wurtz: French firm of publishers and booksellers, founded by John-Georges Treuttel (1744–1826) and John-Godefroy Wurtz (1768–1841) in Strasbourg; they opened a branch in Paris in 1795 and a London branch was set up in 1817 under the management of Adolphus Richter (d. 1857), based at 30 Soho Square. They specialised in importing books from continental Europe. From 1827 they published a new journal, the Foreign Quarterly Review; Southey contributed to the first issue.

Elizabeth Tyler (1739–1821): The older, unmarried half-sister of Southey’s mother. She had spent her early life looking after an elderly relative and on his death received an inheritance which she then spent on living the high life. Her extravagance was a source of great concern to her relatives, in particular her half-brother Herbert Hill. Elizabeth Tyler was painted by Joshua Reynolds and moved in cultural circles in Bath and Bristol, counting amongst her friends the Palmers, owners of the Theatre Royal, Bath.

Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801): Radical writer. Born in Nottingham, the son of George Wakefield, Rector of St Nicholas’s Church. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1776. Wakefield was a Fellow of the College 1776–1779 and a deacon 1778–1779. But he resigned the former post on his marriage and the latter on his conversion to Unitarianism. Thereafter he was a teacher (at Warrington Dissenting Academy 1779–1783) and a professional writer, mainly on classical, religious and political topics.

John Ware (1754–1820): Founding owner, printer and editor of the Cumberland Pacquet and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser 1774–1820. Southey sent the newspaper a letter in 1819 in protest at Henry Brougham’s campaign against the government’s support of the Manchester magistrates over their actions in the ‘Peterloo Massacre’ of 1819.

Joseph Antoine Walwein de Tervliet (dates unknown): Librarian of the Public Library in Ghent, 1810–1818. Southey corresponded with him in 1815 as part of his book-buying activities during his tour of Belgium.