Richard York (1778–1843): Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lieutenant-Colonel in the yeomanry. He lived at Wighill Park, Tadcaster, Yorkshire. York married Lady Mary-Anne Lascelles (1775–1831), daughter of Edward, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740–1820), a Yorkshire landowner with extensive interests in the West Indies, in 1801. York was an occasional correspondent of Southey’s. In 1822 Southey thanked him for a gift of some pheasants and for compliments on his recent letter in the Courier.

Mary Wynn (née Cunliffe; d. 1838): Daughter of Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet (1755–1834) and wife of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn.

Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (1775–1850): Politician. The second son of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th Baronet, and his second wife Charlotte Grenville. He was educated at home by a tutor, the Revd Robert Nares, and later at Westminster (adm. 1784) and Christ Church, Oxford (matric. 1791, BA 1795, MA 1798, DCL 1810). Entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1795 and was called to the Bar in 1798. He married Mary Cunliffe, daughter of a baronet, in 1806. Wynn had excellent family and political connections as his maternal grandfather was the Prime Minister George Grenville (1712–1770; DNB).

Francis Wrangham (1769–1842): Writer and Church of England clergyman. Wrangham was born at Raysthorpe, near Malton, Yorkshire, the son of George Wrangham (1741–1791), a prosperous farmer. He was educated at Hull Grammar School and Magdalene and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Wrangham was ordained in 1793 and enjoyed a successful career in the Church thanks to the initial patronage of the Dukes of Manchester, culminating in posts as Archdeacon of Cleveland 1820–1828 and of the East Riding 1828–1841.

William Wordsworth (1770–1850): Poet. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, the second of five of five children of John Wordsworth (1741–1783), a legal agent for the Lowther family, the most powerful landowners in the Lake District. After his mother died in 1778, Wordsworth was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School and then St John’s College, Cambridge (1787–1791). In 1791 he visited France and had a brief relationship with Annette Vallon, with whom he had a daughter, Caroline.

Thomas Wordsworth (1806–1812): Third child of Mary and William Wordsworth. Born 15 June 1806. Died of measles 1 December 1812.

Mary Wordsworth (1770–1859): Wife of William Wordsworth. Mary was the daughter of John Hutchinson (1736–1783), a farmer. After her father’s death she lived with an aunt in Penrith. She became friendly with Dorothy Wordsworth, when the latter moved to Penrith in 1787 and the Wordsworth and Hutchinson families became increasingly close, visiting each other throughout the 1790s. Mary and William married on 4 October 1802 and had five children, two of whom died in childhood.