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/235686183
- 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/604556383
- 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/16052425980
- Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724, http://isni.org/isni/000000...58
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603, http://isni.org/isni/000000...26
- Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC22
- Aristophanes, Greek comic poet, c 446 BC-c 386 BC19
- Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC, http://isni.org/isni/000000...17
- 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...17
- Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 175315
- Euripides, playwright, 484 BC-406 BC, http://isni.org/isni/000000...14
- D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/1265641513
- Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley, royal minister, Lord Treasurer 1572, 1520-1598, http://isni.org/isni/000000...12
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, poet and administrator, c 1340-1400, http://isni.org/isni/000000...12
- Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/10472231812
- Libanius, rhetorician and teacher, 314-39311
- Synesius of Cyrene11
- Walsingham, Francis, Principal Secretary, c 1532–1590, http://isni.org/isni/000000...11
- Dudley, Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier and statesman, ?1532-158810
- James VI and I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland, 1566-1625, http://isni.org/isni/000000...10