Also known as Sir John Hill, he was a notable botanist, writer, and journalist. Many of his publications are collected in The letters and papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-1775 (1982). Between the years of 1752 and 1753, Hill engaged in a "paper war" with rival authors including Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. In particular, The Story of Elizabeth Canning Considered (1753) was hostile to Canning and Fielding, arguing in favor of the perjury verdict that resulted in Canning's transportation to Connecticut. and

Translator of Madame de Staël's 1807 work Corinne; Or, Italy (1833).

A versatile but only moderately successful playwright, theater manager, and essayist, Hill was one of Alexander Pope’s targets in The Dunciad. As a business man, Hill not only managed the Drury Lane and the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket for brief periods, but was involved in concerns as varied as lumber for Navy ships, potash production, beech nut oil, winemaking, and more. As an author, he began with A full and just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1709), the account of his impromptu solo journey as a teenager from Britain to his uncle's ambassadorial post in Turkey.

Bishop of Sodor and Man. With his predecessor Thomas Wilson he translated the Bible into Manx.

See Dunscombe, Susanna.

British portrait and historical painter and painting theorist. His wife Susanna (1689/90-1750 ) was a poet.

Character in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-9).

English musician, poet, and playwright. As a playwright, Heywood primarily wrote comedy scripts for his boy actors. He is best remembered for his adaptions of French farce and innovations in the development of the English stage comedy through his interludes.

Major works of this early Greek poet include Theogeny, Works and Days, and, more questionably, Shield of Heracles.

Counted among the "sons of Ben