Not to be confused with Isaac Bickerstaff, the alias used by Richard Steele and Jonathan Swift, this Isaac Bickerstaff (or Bickerstaffe) was an Irish playwright and librettist. He had varying success in his works throughout his life, but his play The Maid of the Mill (1765) was one of his successful ones. He also wrote Lionel and Clarissa (1768), a comic opera.

Pseudonym. See Richard Steele and Jonathan Swift.

Better known as "Master Betty" or "the young Roscius," William Henry West Betty was a popular child actor on the English stage in the early nineteenth century. Though a sensation as a child actor, he was not successful as an adult.

A prominent bluestocking and salonniere, Berry edited The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford (1798) under the name Robert Berry. Her memoirs and letters were published as Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution, (1831) and Journals and Correspondence (1865) .

French children's author whose stories were popular with both the French and, in translation, British audiences. L'Ami des enfants (1782-3) is the best known of these works.

Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley is best known for his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710).

Berington authored the utopian narrative Gaudentio di Lucca (1737).

Italian diplomat, cardinal, and historian. Notable works include Relazioni in tempo delle sue nunziature (1629) and Della guerra di Fiandra (1632-9). Posthumous collections of his letters include a four volume set edited by Luigi de Steffani titled La Nunziatura di Francia del cardinale Guido Bentivoglio (1863-70).

A British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, considered the father of Utilitarianism. Bentham's social reform publications included his Panopticon (1791) on prison reform, particularly remembered today in consequence of Michel Foucault's commentary on the idea.

Born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, became Pope in 1740. Among other activities, in 1741 he issued a papal bull against enslavement of indigenous peoples in the Americas, but, unfortunately, the edict went unenforced.