Robert Morris (dates unknown): Southey wrote to him in 1826 about Hartley Coleridge’s annuity from William Jackson, which was secured on the Greta Hall estate. It has otherwise not been possible to identify Morris.

John Morrison (dates unknown): An attorney in Whitehaven, who was involved in administering the complex affairs of Greta Hall, the house that Southey rented from 1803 onwards. He corresponded with Southey on business matters.

Cornelius Neale (1789–1823): Clergyman and writer. He was the son of James Neale (c. 1760–1814), a china manufacturer and member of the London Missionary Society. Educated at St John’s, Cambridge, Cornelius was appointed to a curacy in Leicestershire after his ordination. His Mustapha: A Tragedy (1814) was dedicated to Southey.

James Nichols (1785–1861): Master printer and theological writer. Born in County Durham and brought up in Yorkshire, his early career was as a provincial printer. He moved to London in 1820. A keen promoter of Methodism, he published the proceedings of the first Methodist missionary meeting in Leeds (1813), printed the Arminian or Methodist Magazine (1831–1861), and edited Samuel Wesley’s Poems (1842, 1862).

William Nash (1780–1837): Brother of Edward Nash. Southey corresponded with him occasionally following Edward Nash’s death in January 1821.

Mary Morgan (née Brent; b. 1782): The wife of one of Southey’s oldest friends, John James Morgan. She was the daughter of Moses Brent (d. 1817), a silversmith, and had married John James Morgan in 1800.

Edward Nash (1778–1821): A painter who travelled in the Netherlands with Southey and his family in 1815 and who illustrated The Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo (1816). Best known for his miniatures, Nash painted Southey, and a double portrait of Edith May Southey and Sara Coleridge, in 1820.

Robert Nares (1753–1829): Philologist, clergyman and reviewer. From 1779–1783 Nares was tutor to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn and his older brother, Watkin. He was Usher at Westminster School from 1786–1788, where he continued his tutoring of the Wynn boys and where he undoubtedly met Charles Wynn’s friend Southey. In 1793 Nares was the founder-editor of the pro-government review the British Critic.

William Mudford (1782–1848): Writer, translator and journalist. Born in London, the son of a shopkeeper in Piccadilly. His first novel, Augustus and Mary, was published in 1803. Thereafter Mudford moved between translation, editing and writing biographies, fiction and journalism. His best-known writings were short stories for Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, especially ‘The Iron Shroud’ (1830), which may have inspired Edgar Allen Poe’s (1809–1849) ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ (1842).

George Martin Maber (d. 1844): Clergyman. Educated at St Paul’s School, London and then at Cambridge. He was personal chaplain to Lord Bute and from 1795 Rector of Merthyr Tydfil. Maber and Southey met during a voyage to Portugal in November 1795.