Mrs Crothers (dates and first name unknown): A Keswick neighbour of the Southeys. She lived opposite the Vicarage of Crosthwaite Church and was a regular visitor to the Southey household in the 1810s and 1820s.

Mrs Danvers (d. 1803): Mother of Charles Danvers. She lived at Kingsdown in Bristol and became very close to Southey when he was resident in the city in the late 1790s and 1802–1803. After her death in the influenza epidemic of 1803, Southey described her as someone ‘whom I regarded with something like a family affection.’

Charles Danvers (c. 1764-1814): Bristol wine merchant, trading under the name Danvers and White. He was distantly related to the regicides Sir John Danvers (1584/5–1655; DNB) and General Thomas Harrison (c. 1616–60; DNB) and to the diarist Celia Fiennes (1662–1741; DNB). (Southey possessed a manuscript of Fiennes diary which he had been given by the Danvers family and included unacknowledged excerpts from it in his and Coleridge’s Omniana (1812).) Danvers’ father had ‘been a person of some property’, though the family’s fortunes had since declined.

Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, 1st Baronet (1750–1830): Army officer. In summer 1808, as commander of the British forces in Portugal, he was responsible for agreeing to the highly controversial Convention of Cintra, by which the French army, its arms and spoils were repatriated in British ships. Dalrymple was recalled to England shortly afterwards and appeared before a government-appointed board of inquiry, which determined that he be exonerated of all blame. Although he was subsequently promoted, reaching the rank of General in 1812, he never received another command.

Jane Davy (1780-1855): Wealthy widow, socialite and distant cousin of Walter Scott. She married Humphry Davy on 11 April 1812.

Mrs Druitt (née Lovell; dates unknown): A sister of Southey’s brother-in-law, Robert Lovell; probably either Deborah (1773–1859), Sarah (dates unknown), Lydia (1777–1830) or Rachael Lovell (dates unknown). She had moved to Dublin by 1816 and married Joseph Druitt (1767–1833), an official at the Friends School, Lisburn 1821–1833, probably in 1819. Southey corresponded with her intermittently.

George D’Oyly (1778–1846): Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1813–1815. He was co–editor of an annotated Bible (1814) for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge meeting in Bartlett’s Buildings, an Anglican missionary society founded in 1701, and a frequent contributor to the Quarterly Review. He corresponded with Southey in the 1820s.

John Edmondson (d. 1823): A surgeon and apothecary in Keswick, who treated the Southey family.

William Coxe (1748-1828): Clergyman, historian and travel writer. His successful clerical career culminated in his appointment as Archdeacon of Wiltshire 1804–1828, but he devoted most of his time to historical writings, including History of the House of Austria (1807) and Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain (1813). Coxe concentrated on diplomatic exchanges and high politics, leading Southey to view his books as very dull, if worthy. The two corresponded briefly about European history.

Sir Charles William Doyle (1770–1842): Irish Army officer, from a military family based in Kilkenny. He joined the 14th Foot as an ensign in 1783 and from 1793 onwards served with distinction in the Netherlands, the West Indies and Egypt. In 1808–1811 Doyle helped to arm and train Spanish troops in the Peninsular War. His work was judged a great success, especially in forming a group of light infantry known as ‘Doyle’s Triadores’ and he was made a Lieutenant-General in the Spanish Army.