Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth. She married Richard Crowther.

Richardson is known as the inventor of the epistolary novel, which he developed while working on a collection of model letters, Letters Written to and for Particular Friends, on the Most Important Occasions, better known as Familiar Letters (1741). His three most famous works are all named after the sentimental heroes or heroines whose stories they relate. Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740-1) tells of a virtuous servant who holds out against her employer's immodest advances until ultimately he rewards her with marriage.

Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth. She married Philip Ditcher.

Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth. She married Edward Brigden.

Daughter of Samuel Richardson's master during his apprenticeship, she became in 1721 his first wife. She died in 1731.

Samuel Richardson's second wife, whom he married in 1733.

Samuel Richardson's daughter.

Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth.

The controversial brother of King Edward IV, Richard reigned as King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field in The Wars of the Roses. The victor, Henry Tudor, thereby became Henry VII.

King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399 by Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who became Henry IV. Probably his most noteworthy act was facing down the Peasant's Revolt (or Wat Tyler Rebellion) in 1381.