Name
- Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/235686152
- Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/604556352
- Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/16052425949
- Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724, http://isni.org/isni/000000...39
- Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 175314
- Lydgate, John, poet, monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds and Prior of Hatfield Regis Priory, c 1370-1449/50?, http://isni.org/isni/000000...13
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603, http://isni.org/isni/000000...10
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, poet and administrator, c 1340-1400, http://isni.org/isni/000000...7
- D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/126564157
- Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley, royal minister, Lord Treasurer 1572, 1520-1598, http://isni.org/isni/000000...6
- Dudley, Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier and statesman, ?1532-15886
- Walsingham, Francis, Principal Secretary, c 1532–1590, http://isni.org/isni/000000...6
- Worsley, Henry, scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-1721) and governor of Barbados (1721-1731), 1675-17476
- Cotton, Robert Bruce, first baronet, antiquary and politician, 22 Jan 1571-6 May 1631, http://isni.org/isni/000000...5
- Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC, http://isni.org/isni/000000...5
- Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/1047223185
- Newton, Adam, Royal official, d. 16305
- Puckering, John, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, 1544-1596, http://isni.org/isni/000000...5
- Wanley, Humfrey, Old English scholar and librarian, 1672-1726, http://isni.org/isni/000000...5
- Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/897707814