Arthur Aikin (1773-1854): Son of John Aikin and nephew of Anna Letitia Barbauld. A Unitarian intellectual, writer and lecturer on chemistry and mineralogy and from 1803–1808 the editor of the Annual Review, the journal for which Southey wrote before he became a regular contributor to the Quarterly Review.
Richard Boyle Adderley (d. 1857): A friend of Southey’s during his time at Westminster School. His family were from Innishannon, Co. Cork; in later life he was a barrister and civil servant.
John Adamson (1787-1855): Solicitor, antiquary, Portuguese scholar and leading figure in the intellectual life of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He corresponded with Southey over their shared interest in Portuguese literature and translation. His Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Luis de Camoens (1820) was greatly admired by Southey.
Manuel Abella (1753-1817): Spanish scholar, historian and archivist. He was one of the secretaries to the commission that drew up the plans for the Cortes that met in 1810 and later served in that body as a deputy from Aragon. In 1810-1811 he was in London as secretary to the Duke of Albuquerque, the Cortes’s representative in the United Kingdom. At this time, Southey (who had been given an introduction to Abella by Henry Crabb Robinson) wrote to him requesting documents that might help with accounts of the Peninsular War Southey was producing for the Edinburgh Annual Register.
Town on the Norfolk coast; Southey visited his brother Henry Herbert Southey, who was studying with George Burnett, there in late May 1798.
The home of the Wynn family.
The boarding house run by Margaret Southey from 1793 to 1798.
Village just outside Bristol. Southey rented a cottage, which he named Martin-Hall, in Westbury between June 1798 and June 1799.
A farm rented by Tom Southey and his family from early 1816 until their move to Emerald Bank on 25 March 1819.
Lake to the east of Keswick, on the shores of which Thomas Clarkson and his wife lived until 1806.
