Arthur Malkin (1803–1888): Civil engineer, writer and alpinist. Son of Benjamin Heath Malkin (1769–1842; DNB), headmaster of the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds 1809–1828. He visited Southey in 1824. His connection to Southey was probably through Susannah Henry, William Peachy’s second wife, whose mother lived in Bury St Edmunds.

George Martin Maber (d. 1844): Clergyman. Educated at St Paul’s School, London and then at Cambridge. He was personal chaplain to Lord Bute and from 1795 Rector of Merthyr Tydfil. Maber and Southey met during a voyage to Portugal in November 1795.

Robert Lundie (1774–1832): Educated at the University of Edinburgh. He married Mary Grey on 27 April 1813 and was Minister of Kelso. He worked with John and James Ballantyne on the Edinburgh Annual Register, producing the yearly ‘Chronicle’ from late 1810. He was one of the financial guarantors of their co-partnership, along with Walter Scott.

William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844): From 1802, when he inherited vast estates in Cumberland and Westmoreland, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the country. A Tory, Lowther became the patron of Wordsworth, arranging for him to be given the government post of Distributor of Stamps. Southey and Lowther were on good terms, and Southey made several visits to Lowther castle.

Augusta Lowther, Countess of Lonsdale (1761–1838): Born Lady Augusta Fane, daughter of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (1728–1774). In 1781 she married William Lowther, who became 1st Earl of Lonsdale in 1807; the couple had six children.

Robert Lovell, Junior (1795–1836): The son of Mary and Robert Lovell, his father’s early death left him with few prospects (significantly less than those of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s children, whose paternal relations were capable of greater generosity). In 1803 the money paid by the Lovell family for his education ceased. Southey and John May tried to get Robert Lovell Junior into Christ’s Hospital. They failed. The boy was apprenticed to a London printer and effectively separated from his mother, who lived with the Southeys in Keswick.

Robert Lovell (1771–1796): Poet. Born in Bristol, the son of a wealthy Quaker manufacturer (initially of cabinets and later of pins), and his first wife Edith Bourne, a Quaker minister. Lovell possibly entered the manufacturing business (on his death he was described as a pin manufacturer) but was ill at ease in the commercial world. In 1794 he married Mary Fricker. His family disapproved of the match because she was not a Quaker and had worked as an actress. Their son, also named Robert, was born in 1795.

See Fricker, Mary (1771–1862)

John Hill Lovell (1790–1855): Younger half-brother of the poet Robert Lovell. He was a commission agent and partner in the Bristol firm of Fisher, King & Lovell. In 1818 he wrote to Southey asking how to contact his (and Southey’s) nephew, Robert Lovell Jnr.

Lovell family: A family of Bristol-based Quakers and pin manufacturers. Robert Lovell (1746–1804) and his first wife Edith Bourne (1745–1782) had two sons, Joseph and Robert (Southey’s brother-in-law), and five daughters. Lovell’s second marriage to Lydia Hill (1754–1816) produced five more children. Southey was on reasonable terms with all the Lovells, but their relationship was clouded by struggles over adequate financial provision for the son and widow of Robert Lovell.