The son of two actors, John Emery was initially schooled for a career as a stage musician. As an actor, he was well received in numerous roles, including that of Tyke in the Covent Garden premier of Thomas Morton’s School of Reform (1805).

Elliston was an actor and theater manager, working at many different locations throughout England. Duke Aranza in John Tobin’s The Honey Moon is considered one of his best performances.

The daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York was married to Henry VII in 1486, thereby uniting the houses of York and Lancaster over the British throne and effectively ending The Wars of the Roses.

The last of the Tudor monarchs, Elizabeth became queen in 1558. Sometimes known as "the Virgin Queen" for the fact that she never married, she presided over what many regarded as a golden age of British arts and expansionism.

Known for her Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764).

Author of Canons of Criticism (1748) as well as a number of sonnets respected by his contemporaries.

An English farmer, poet, dramatist, and composer, sometimes known as Richard Edwardes. His play Palamon and Arcite, now lost, was performed for the court of Elizabeth I in 1566. The excellent Comedie of two the moste faithfullest Freendes, Damon and Pithias (published 1571) is his only now-extant drama. Some of his poems appeared in the Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576).

Known as The Black Prince allegedly because of the black armor he wore as a commander in the Hundred Years War, Edward was heir apparent to Edward III.

The eldest surviving son of King Edward IV, young Edward V was the King of England from April to June of 1483, when he was deposed and possibly murdered by his uncle, the future King Richard III.

Called, until 1459, Earl of March, Edward IV, the House of York representative, became King of England in June 1461 during the War of the Roses after deposing Lancastrian King Henry VI. In October 1470 Henry VI was briefly reinstalled on the throne, but was defeated and then died in May 1471, when Edward returned to the throne and held power until his death.