Scottish poet James Thomson's nature and landscape poem The Seasons (1730) was much revered by his contemporaries and influenced Romantic period poetic depiction of nature. Thomson published several republican political poems, including the unsuccessful Liberty (1735-1736). Other works include The Castle of Indolence (1748), a Spenserian allegory; and five dramatic tragedies: The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730), Agamemnon (1738); Edward and Eleonora (1739), Tancred and Sigismunda (1745), and Coriolanus (1749).

Benjamin Thompson was an English dramatist. He saw little success with his original works, but successfully translated many plays, including The Stranger (1798) by August von Kotzebue.

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his assassination in 1170 in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of King Henry II. Soon after his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III and is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic and Anglican Churches. His shrine at Canterbury is the object of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Primarily a travel writer, Thicknesse had an early career as a military officer during a Maroon rebellion in Jamaica. After the deaths of his first two wives, he married the singer Ann Ford, thereafter known as Ann Thicknesse.

Née Ann Ford, Mrs. Thicknesse was an English instrumentalist and singer who attained professional standing. She was the third wife of Philip Thicknesse. Her The School for Fashion (1800) is a roman a clef that includes easily discernable portraits of many well-known figures of her day.

Also known as Theophrastus of Eresus. He was a peripatetic philosopher who studied in Athens as a pupil of Alcippus; he may have studied with Plato and probably had contact with Aristotle. After Aristotle's death, he became the head of the peripatetic school in Athens.

An English author and editor, Theobald was the first Shakespearean scholar to study the plays with the respect that had until then been reserved for classical works.

Character in Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801).

The Abbé Terrasson's Sethos (1731) fictitiously purports to recount incidents in the life of an ancient Egyptian as translated from a Greek manuscript. It served as the source for much of the material on Freemasonry for Mozart's The Magic Flute (1791).

Roman-African dramatist living from roughly 195-159 B.C.E. The senator Terentius Lucanus brought Terence to Rome as a slave, later providing the latter an education as well as his freedom. Terence's comedies formed the foundation of what would become the modern comedy of manners, and his works have been imitated by many famous playwrights, most notably William Shakespeare.