Political philosopher James Harrington authored The Common-wealth of Oceana (1656), in which he promotes his ideas on the ideal design of a republic.

Also Harpocrates; the Greek version of one aspect of the Egyptian god Horus, who represented in this form the rising sun.

Ancient writer whose work is known through later quotations rather than through surviving texts.

See Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of, 1661-1724.

A late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century soldier turned historian, author of The Chronicle of John Hardyng, printed in London by Grafton in 1543 and recently suggested as a source for Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.

The 1st Earl Harcourt, known as the Viscount Harcourt between 1727 and 1749, Simon Harcourt was a British general and diplomat who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772 to 1776.

The 2nd Earl Harcourt, styled Viscount Nuneham until inheriting the title of Earl Harcourt in 1777, George Harcourt was an English politician and patron of the arts.

Carthaginian statesman and general leading the forces of Carthage against Rome during the Second Punic War. Alongside Scipio Africanus and Alexander the Great, Hannibal is considered to be one of the greatest military minds of Mediterranean antiquity.

Known mostly for his political career, Hanmer also made a few minor contributions to the field of literature.

German composer who emigrated to London, Handel was a prolific and much loved author of well over 100 operas, oratorios, concertos, and other musical pieces, including his most famous work, Messiah (1742). An extremely abbreviated list of a few other major works includes Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (1713), Water Music (1717), Acis and Galatea (1718), The Harmonious Blacksmith (1720), Giulio Cesare (1724), Tamerlano (1724), Zadok the Priest (1727), Alcina (1735), Alexander's Feast (1736), Ode for St.