A family of characters in Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1754).

English author of Gothic novels and part of the della Cruscan movement in poetry writing under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda." Dacre's romance and gothic novels often featured unconventional female characters who displayed violence, ambition, and sexual desire. Her fictional works include The Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805), Zofloya; or, The Moor (1806), The Libertine (1807), and The Passions (1811). She also published the poetry volumes Hours of Solitude (1805) and George the Fourth (1822).

Founder of the Persian empire.

Knighted and made Baronet in 1660 for his financial support of the Restoration, Sir John Cutler was a grocer, financier, and Member of Parliament.

Late-eighteenth century publisher of a number of guides and grammars to the Italian language.

Ruler of a large area of southeastern Britain prior to the Roman occupation. Cunobelinus became a popular figure in British legend, most famously immortalized by William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, though the play is not an accurate reflection of the events in Cunobelinus' life or career.

Son of George II, called "Butcher" Cumberland for his brutal suppression of Highland Jacobites after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Though far more known as a playwright, Cumberland did author an occasional novel, including Arundel (1789) and Henry (1795). Two of his early plays are among his best: The Brothers, which debuted in 1769, and The West Indian, first staged in 1771. Other plays of his include The Jew (1794), First Love (1795), and The Wheel of Fortune (1795). Cumberland’s Memoirs were published in 1806 and 1807.

A satirical political cartoonist, Cruikshank was also known for his book illustrations, including for some of Charles Dickens's novels.

English soldier, general, and statesman who led the parliamentary armies against Charles I in the English Civil War and served as the Lord Protector of England, Ireland, and Scotland in the period of the republican commonwealth. While many prominent figures have denounced Cromwell as a dictator, he was a champion of liberty in the eyes of poet John Milton, his private secretary for the Council of State.