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.

English poet and politician, best remembered for his elegies.

English official, politician, poet, and pamphleteer who was admitted to St. John's College at Cambridge in 1685. A popular though probably apocryphal story states that Hammond found young Susanna Centlivre weeping at the side of the road and decided to smuggle her into St. John's College, where she attended class under the guise of a man.

Title character in William Shakespeare's c. 1660-1661 play.

First son of Elizabeth Campbell, duchess of Hamilton and Argyll. James died from an illness in 1769 at the age of fourteen.

Many, including Hays herself, believed that Hamilton composed the anonymously published Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) to satirize London's radical circle in general, and author Mary Hays in particular. Hamilton's other novels include Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796) and The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808). She also authored several biographies, including Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, Wife of Germanicus (1804).

Second son of Elizabeth Campbell, duchess of Hamilton and Argyll. His older brother James having died at the age of fourteen, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton and 5th Duke of Brandon, also inherited the title Baron Hamilton of Hameldon upon the death of his mother. He lived in Europe between 1772 and 1776 under the tutelage of Dr. John Moore. He was a patron of Moore's son, the future Sir John Moore.

Known for his Memoires de la vie du comte de Grammont (1715).

Swiss physiologist, poet, and romance writer, whose scientific work did much to establish the reputation of the recently founded University of Göttingen. He translated Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-9) into German.