English Tory politician, Secretary at War, poet, and playwright. Influenced by the writing of Dryden, Lord Lansdowne was best known for his stage adaptations, including The Heroick Love (1698) and The Jew of Venice (1701).

Diplomat and politician.

Initially trained as a painter, Grandmaison (1759-1834) was appointed to the French Academy in recognition of his poetry in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Hero of Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1754).

The most interesting literary work by West Indian poet and physician James Grainger is The Sugar-Cane (1764). His "Solitude, an Ode" was reprinted, among other places, in Southey's Specimens of the Later English Poets (1807). He translated several Latin works, including the elegies of Tibullus. Grainger also authored groundbreaking medical treatises on the care of slaves.

English peer and politician who served as Lord High Steward at King George I's coronation, Privy Counsellor (1715), Knight of the Garter (1721), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1720-1724), and Lord Chamberlain (1724-1757).

Mme de Grafigny's novel Lettres d'une Péruviennes (1747) tells the story of Zilia, an Incan princess captured by the Spanish.

An English poet, contemporary of William Langland and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirour de l'Omme (c. 1376-1379), Vox Clamantis (c. 1377-1381), and Confessio Amantis (c. 1390-1392), three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes.

Judge of the king's bench and maternal grandfather to the novelist Henry Fielding.

neé Elizabeth Midwinter, she married bookseller and banker Sir Francis Gosling (Gosling, Francis, Sir, d. 1768 ).