500 Most Quoted Authors in the Oxford English Dictionary - Statistics

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Author	Lifespan	Total Quotations	Description	% Correct
William Shakespeare	1564-1616	32,586	playwright and poet	96%
Charles Dickens	1812-1870	9,213	novelist	90%
Jane Austen	1775-1817	1,738	novelist	83%
Adam Smith	bap. 1723, d. 1790	734	moral philosopher and political economist	77%
Charlotte Brontë	1816-1855	1,330	novelist	77%
Ben Jonson	?1573-1637	4,985	poet and playwright	76%
Geoffrey Chaucer	c1340-1400	13,923	poet and administrator	76%
James Smith	1775-1839	750	writer and humorist	76%
John Smith	bap. 1580, d. 1631	1,757	soldier and colonial governor	76%
Sydney Smith	1771-1845	682	author and wit	76%
Samuel Johnson	1709-1784	5,231	author and lexicographer	74%
Lord Byron	1788-1824	4,359	poet	72%
Mark Twain	1835-1910	2,507	author and lecturer	71%
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792-1822	3,665	poet	71%
Thomas Brown	bap. 1663, d. 1704	1,170	writer	71%
George Eliot	1819-1880	3,461	novelist	69%
Thomas Ken	1637-1711	1,131	bishop of Bath and Wells and nonjuror	68%
William Black	1841-1898	1,104	journalist and novelist	68%
George P.R. James	1801-1860	901	novelist	67%
Henry James	1843-1916	1,216	writer	67%
Sinclair Lewis	1885-1951	687	novelist	67%
William James	1842-1910	1,121	philosopher and psychologist	67%
John Stuart Mill	1806-1873	1,450	philosopher, economist, and advocate of women's rights	66%
Virginia Woolf	1882-1941	669	writer and publisher	66%
James Joyce	1882-1941	2,478	writer	63%
John Milton	1608-1674	12,274	poet and polemicist	63%
Thomas Adams	1583-1652	1,108	Church of England clergyman	63%
Charles Darwin	1809-1882	1,987	naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection	62%
John Keats	1795-1821	1,788	poet	62%
Robert Louis Stevenson	1850-1894	2,643	writer	62%
Walter Scott	1771-1832	17,055	poet and novelist	62%
William of Shoreham	fl. c1320	818	poet	62%
Thomas More	1478-1535	3,525	lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr	61%
William Carr	d. 1843	912	(none given)	61%
Jonathan Swift	1667-1745	4,876	writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin	60%
T.S. Eliot	1888-1965	750	poet, critic, and publisher	60%
James Lee	1715-1795	675	nurseryman	59%
Dylan Thomas	1914-1953	808	poet	58%
H.G. Wells	1866-1946	1,326	novelist and social commentator	58%
Thomas Hardy	1840-1928	2,426	novelist and poet	58%
Thomas Jackson	1570/71-1646	669	Church of England clergyman	58%
Arthur Conan Doyle	1859-1930	836	writer	57%
Daniel Defoe	?1660-1731	5,322	writer and businessman	57%
Hugh Miller	1802-1856	872	geologist, evangelical journalist, and writer	57%
John Richard Green	1837-1883	1,156	historian	57%
Philip Miller	1691-1771	899	horticulturist and writer	57%
Benjamin Franklin	1706-1790	931	natural philosopher, writer, and revolutionary politician in America	56%
Rudyard Kipling	1865-1936	3,095	writer and poet	56%
George Bernard Shaw	1856-1950	2,332	playwright and polemicist	55%
George Washington	1732-1799	692	revolutionary army officer and president of the United States of America	55%
Thomas Jefferson	1743-1826	1,993	revolutionary politician and president of the United States of America	55%
Thomas Washington	fl. 1585	962	(none given)	55%
D.H. Lawrence	1885-1930	2,219	writer	54%
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806-1861	1,109	poet and writer	54%
Francis Bacon	1561-1626	4,757	lord chancellor, politician, and philosopher	54%
John Harris	c1666-1719	1,028	writer and lecturer on science	54%
Nathaniel Bacon	bap. 1593, d. 1660	733	politician and author	54%
Robert Browning	1812-1889	3,095	poet	54%
Christopher Marlowe	?1564-1593	1,281	playwright and poet	53%
James Fenimore Cooper	1789-1851	1,032	novelist	53%
John Locke	1632-1704	1,738	philosopher	53%
Thomas Cooper	c1517-1594	1,483	theologian and bishop of Winchester	53%
Alfred Tennyson	1809-1892	6,459	poet	52%
Asa Gray	1810-1888	766	botanist	52%
John Wilson	1785-1854	767	author and journalist	52%
Samuel Richardson	bap. 1689, d. 1761	3,608	printer and author	52%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772-1834	4,761	poet, critic, and philosopher	52%
Thomas Gray	1716-1771	1,343	poet and literary scholar	52%
Thomas Wilson	d. 1581	1,202	humanist and administrator	52%
William Harrison	1535-1593	1,001	historian and topographer	52%
William Morris	1834-1896	1,546	designer, author, and visionary socialist	52%
Herman Melville	1819-1891	976	novelist and poet	51%
Robert Burns	1759-1796	2,930	poet	51%
Thomas Moore	1779-1852	888	poet	51%
William Faulkner	1897-1962	999	short-story writer and novelist	51%
William Wordsworth	1770-1850	2,091	poet	51%
Henry More	1614-1687	4,267	philosopher, poet, and theologian	50%
Alexander Pope	1688-1744	5,306	poet	49%
Bayard Taylor	1825-1878	822	writer	49%
Jeremy Taylor	d. 1667	1,940	Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor and religious writer	49%
John Taylor	1578-1653	1,514	poet	49%
William Taylor	1765-1836	1,475	reviewer and translator	49%
John Donne	1572-1631	2,038	poet and Church of England clergyman	48%
John Ford	bap. 1586, d. a1653	744	playwright	48%
Joseph Conrad	1857-1924	808	master mariner and author	48%
Thomas Hobbes	1588-1679	2,408	philosopher	48%
Henry Fielding	1707-1754	2,743	author and magistrate	47%
Thomas Hughes	1822-1896	958	social reformer and children's writer	47%
William S. Hamilton	1788-1856	784	philosopher	47%
Gavin Douglas	c1476-1522	4,485	poet and bishop of Dunkeld	46%
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803-1882	2,923	lecturer and author	46%
Richard Owen	1804-1892	976	comparative anatomist and palaeontologist	46%
Robert Greene	bap. 1558, d. 1592	2,630	writer and playwright	46%
Samuel Pepys	1633-1703	2,033	naval official and diarist	46%
William Robertson	1721-1793	724	historian and Church of Scotland minister	46%
William Thackeray	1811-1863	4,948	novelist	46%
Arthur Golding	d. 1606	2,296	translator	45%
Graham Greene	1904-1991	858	author	45%
Joseph Hall	1574-1656	3,658	bishop of Norwich, religious writer, and satirist	45%
Jack London	1876-1916	772	writer, war correspondent, and agronomist	44%
John Dryden	1631-1700	9,309	poet, playwright, and critic	44%
Noah Webster	1758-1843	991	lexicographer	44%
Arthur Young	1741-1820	879	agricultural reformer and writer	43%
Duke of Wellington	1769-1852	798	army officer and prime minister	43%
Edward Young	bap. 1683, d. 1765	1,674	writer	43%
Herbert Spencer	1820-1903	1,056	philosopher, social theorist, and sociologist	43%
James Bell	d. ?1606	822	translator	43%
John Ray	1627-1705	3,006	naturalist and theologian	43%
Matthew Arnold	1822-1888	1,200	poet, writer, and inspector of schools	43%
Richard Burton	1821-1890	1,106	explorer and author	43%
Robert Burton	1577-1640	1,359	writer	43%
Sidney Baker	1912-1976	651	(none given)	43%
Anthony Wood	1632-1695	1,353	antiquary	42%
Benjamin Disraeli	1804-1881	1,711	prime minister and novelist	42%
George Daniel	1616-1657	825	poet	42%
Gilbert Hay	c1397-c1465	1,176	soldier and poet	42%
Isaac D'Israeli	1766-1848	920	writer	42%
Jeremy Bentham	1748-1832	2,050	philosopher, jurist, and reformer	42%
John Hill	bap. 1714, d. 1775	781	physician and actor	42%
Samuel Daniel	?1563-1619	1,156	poet and historian	42%
William Ellis	c1700-1758	1,244	agriculturist and writer	42%
David Hume	1711-1776	1,187	philosopher and historian	41%
Edmund Burke	?1730-1797	3,587	politician and author	41%
Edmund Spenser	?1552-1599	6,307	poet and administrator in Ireland	41%
John Bunyan	d. 1688	1,172	author	41%
W.H. Auden	1907-1973	768	poet and writer	41%
William Turner	d. 1568	1,843	naturalist and religious controversialist	41%
W. Somerset Maugham	1874-1965	683	writer and playwright	41%
John Davies	?1565-1618	1,010	poet and writing-master	40%
John Davies	1625-1693	988	translator	40%
Myles Davies	1662-?1719	870	bibliographer	40%
Abraham Fleming	c1552-1607	2,207	author, literary editor, and Church of England clergyman	39%
Charles Kingsley	1819-1875	2,896	novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist	39%
Charles Lamb	1775-1834	1,950	essayist	39%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807-1882	1,404	poet and professor of modern languages	39%
Aldous Huxley	1894-1963	1,523	writer	38%
Andrew of Wyntoun	c1350-c1422	1,396	prior of St Serf's, Lochleven, and historian	38%
Julian Huxley	1887-1975	658	zoologist and philosopher	38%
Richard Eden	c1520-1576	2,287	translator	38%
Thomas Herbert	1606-1682	2,060	traveller and government official	38%
Thomas Huxley	1825-1895	2,569	biologist and science educationist	38%
Angell Day	fl. 1563-1595	655	stationer and writer	37%
Edward Freeman	1823-1892	1,977	historian	37%
William Caxton	1415x24-1492	9,711	printer, merchant, and diplomat	37%
Harriet Beecher Stowe	1811-1896	1,052	author	36%
Izaak Walton	1593-1683	837	author and biographer	36%
John Wesley	1703-1791	1,683	Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism	36%
Matthew Hale	1609-1676	1,085	judge and writer	36%
Thomas Browne	1605-1682	4,146	physician and author	36%
William Marshall	bap. 1745, d. 1818	1,355	agricultural writer and land agent	36%
Edward H. Knight	1824-1883	4,079	patent lawyer and expert in mechanics	35%
Leslie Stephen	1832-1904	671	author, literary critic, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography	35%
R.D. Blackmore	1825-1900	969	novelist and fruit farmer	35%
Benjamin Robins	1707-1751	1,000	mathematician and military engineer	34%
Gilbert Burnet	1643-1715	1,477	bishop of Salisbury and historian	34%
Henry Watts	1815-1884	2,094	chemist	34%
Isaac Watts	1674-1748	956	Independent minister and writer	34%
Robert South	1634-1716	1,043	Church of England clergyman and theologian	34%
Thomas Norton	d. 1584	1,187	lawyer and writer	34%
Walter Raleigh	1554-1618	1,251	courtier, explorer, and author	34%
Ann Radcliffe	1764-1823	1,239	novelist	33%
Edward Ward	1667-1731	1,327	satirist	33%
John Bale	1495-1563	1,252	bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian	33%
John Norris	1657-1712	1,286	Church of England clergyman and philosopher	33%
Leigh Hunt	1784-1859	1,062	poet, journalist, and literary critic	33%
Nathaniel Ward	1578-1652	654	clergyman and compiler of a law code for Massachusetts	33%
Randle Holme	1627-1700	3,211	herald painter	33%
Robert Hunt	1807-1887	902	chemist and photographer	33%
Thomas Fuller	1607/8-1661	5,141	Church of England clergyman	33%
Thomas Stanley	1625-1678	992	poet and classical scholar	33%
Washington Irving	1783-1859	2,592	author	33%
Daniel Rogers	1573-1652	720	Church of England clergyman	32%
Francis Robinson	1809-1882	1,008	(none given)	32%
Frederick Marryat	1792-1848	2,476	naval officer and novelist	32%
Roger North	1651-1734	1,197	lawyer, politician, and writer	32%
Thomas North	1535-?1603	1,204	translator	32%
William Stewart	fl. 1499-1541	1,394	chronicler and poet	32%
Anthony Trollope	1815-1882	1,906	novelist	31%
Edward Phillips	b. 1630	1,792	writer and biographer	31%
Horace Walpole	1717-1797	2,338	author, politician, and patron of the arts	31%
John Parkinson	1566/7-1650	767	apothecary and herbalist	31%
John Sinclair	1754-1835	805	agricultural improver, politician, and codifier of 'useful knowledge'	31%
Nathan Bailey	d. 1742	3,723	lexicographer and schoolmaster	31%
Nathaniel Hawthorne	1804-1864	1,832	author	31%
Philip Bailey	1816-1902	1,137	poet	31%
Robert Southey	1774-1843	4,733	poet and reviewer	31%
Samuel Rutherford	c1600-1661	918	Church of Scotland minister and political theorist	31%
Theodore Hook	1788-1841	732	writer and hoaxer	31%
Thomas De Quincey	1785-1859	1,657	essayist	31%
Edward Gibbon	1737-1794	1,923	historian	30%
Elizabeth Gaskell	1810-1865	1,057	novelist and short-story writer	30%
George Chapman	?1560-1634	3,116	poet and playwright	30%
Henry Brooke	c1703-1783	1,099	writer and playwright	30%
James Thomson	1700-1748	1,326	poet	30%
John A. Thomson	1861-1933	925	(none given)	30%
John Ruskin	1819-1900	3,186	art critic and social critic	30%
Joseph Priestley	1733-1804	697	theologian and natural philosopher	30%
Oliver Wendell Holmes	1809-1894	969	physician, teacher of anatomy, and writer	30%
Robert Hooke	1635-1703	688	natural philosopher	30%
Theophilus Gale	1628-1679	881	ejected minister and theologian	30%
Thomas Thomson	1773-1852	747	chemist	30%
William Penn	1644-1718	714	Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania	30%
Gabriel Harvey	c1552-1631	1,291	scholar and writer	29%
George MacDonald	1824-1905	979	poet and novelist	29%
John Ash	1724-1779	885	lexicographer and grammarian	29%
John Mason Good	1764-1827	1,514	physician and surgeon	29%
Richard Bradley	?1688-1732	2,135	botanist and writer	29%
William Baldwin	fl. 1563	699	author and printer	29%
William Cowper	1731-1800	5,864	poet and letter-writer	29%
Alexander Montgomerie	c1550-1598	931	poet and courtier	28%
James Boswell	1740-1795	1,034	lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson	28%
P.G. Wodehouse	1881-1975	1,838	writer	28%
William Salmon	1644-1713	927	medical empiric and author	28%
Henry Stephens	1795-1874	948	writer on agriculture	27%
Richard Steele	d. 1729	4,005	writer and politician	26%
William Warner	d. 1609	1,478	poet and lawyer	26%
Abraham Tucker	1705-1774	1,210	philosopher	25%
Elisha Kane	1820-1857	1,711	physician and Arctic explorer	25%
Henry Hammond	1605-1660	788	Church of England clergyman and theologian	25%
Joseph Hooker	1817-1911	702	botanist	25%
Philip Stanhope	1694-1773	751	politician and diplomatist	25%
Richard Hooker	1554-1600	1,543	theologian and philosopher	25%
Sabine Baring-Gould	1834-1924	805	Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector	25%
Thomas Middleton	d. 1627	1,843	playwright	24%
James Howell	?1594-1666	2,243	historian and political writer	22%
Nicholas Rowe	1674-1718	783	poet and playwright	22%
James Bryce	1838-1922	676	jurist, historian, and politician	21%
Nathaniel Fairfax	1637-1690	781	physician and antiquary	21%
William Dunbar	?1460-?1530	2,508	poet and courtier	21%
Richard Baxter	1615-1691	1,775	ejected minister and religious writer	19%
Allan Ramsay	1684-1758	2,338	poet	18%
Gervase Markham	?1568-1637	2,468	author	18%
John Gay	1685-1732	1,061	poet and playwright	18%
John Healey	c1585-c1616	849	translator	18%
Joseph Butler	1692-1752	810	moral philosopher and theologian	18%
Samuel Butler	d. 1680	1,653	poet	18%
William Warburton	1698-1779	698	bishop of Gloucester and religious controversialist	18%
3rd Earl of Shaftesbury	1671-1713	776	philosopher and author	17%
Andrew Marvell	1621-1678	1,286	poet and politician	17%
John Buchan	1875-1940	1,055	author, publisher, and governor-general of Canada	17%
John Henry Newman	1801-1890	1,452	theologian and cardinal	17%
John Jamieson	1759-1838	1,841	antiquary and philologist	17%
John Heywood	c1496-c1578	1,882	playwright and epigrammatist	16%
Laurence Sterne	1713-1768	1,534	writer and Church of England clergyman	16%
Robert Boyle	1627-1691	3,178	natural philosopher	16%
Thomas Heywood	c1573-1641	2,406	playwright and poet	16%
William Gladstone	1809-1898	1,063	prime minister and author	16%
John Galsworthy	1867-1933	901	novelist and playwright	15%
King Alfred	c848-899	2,224	king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons	15%
Stephen Hawes	b. c1474	1,065	poet	15%
George Berkeley	1685-1753	1,748	Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher	14%
John Fletcher	1579-1625	2,108	playwright	14%
Oliver Goldsmith	?1728-1774	4,469	author	14%
Richard Bentley	1662-1742	962	philologist and classical scholar	14%
Ezra Pound	1885-1972	716	poet	13%
John Wilkins	1614-1672	910	theologian and natural philosopher	13%
John Wyclif	d. 1384	3,044	theologian, philosopher, and religious reformer	13%
Thomas Hood	1799-1845	1,237	poet and humorist	13%
Henry Power	c1626-1668	732	natural philosopher and physician	12%
Thomas Bowes	fl. 1579-1589	722	translator	12%
Thomas Carlyle	1795-1881	6,724	author, biographer, and historian	12%
Thomas Lodge	1558-1625	971	author and physician	12%
Francis Beaumont	1584-1616	987	playwright	11%
John Clare	1793-1864	887	poet, farm labourer, and naturalist	11%
Richard Sheridan	1751-1816	849	playwright and politician	11%
Andrew Borde	c1490-1549	969	physician and author	10%
David Brewster	1781-1868	815	natural philosopher and academic administrator	10%
Richard Grafton	c1511-1573	1,407	printer and historian	10%
Tobias Smollett	1721-1771	2,580	writer	10%
Abraham Cowley	1618-1667	1,117	poet	9%
John Blackie	1809-1895	853	classical and Scottish Gaelic scholar	9%
John Nicholson	1791-1851	890	mechanical engineer	9%
Peter Nicholson	1765-1844	666	architectural writer and mathematician	9%
Benjamin Jowett	1817-1893	1,971	master of Balliol College	8%
Geoffrey Fenton	c1539-1608	787	translator and administrator in Ireland	8%
John Weever	d. 1632	694	poet and antiquary	8%
Joseph Addison	1672-1719	4,334	writer and politician	8%
Mary Wortley Montagu	bap. 1689, d. 1762	928	writer	8%
Philip Sidney	1554-1586	3,314	author and courtier	8%
Richard Montagu	bap. 1575, d. 1641	1,059	bishop of Norwich and religious controversialist	8%
Robert Copland	fl. 1505-1547	1,074	translator and printer	8%
Robert Mayne	1808-1868	1,991	(none given)	8%
Robert Sanderson	1587-1663	781	bishop of Lincoln	8%
Thomas Malory	d. 1471	1,833	author	8%
Charles Reade	1814-1884	659	novelist and playwright	7%
Ephraim Chambers	?1680-1740	3,772	encyclopaedist	7%
George Meredith	1828-1909	1,892	novelist and poet	7%
Jedidiah Morse	1761-1826	1,056	geographer and clergyman	7%
John C. Atkinson	1814-1900	798	author and antiquary	7%
John Foxe	?1517-1587	1,584	martyrologist	7%
John Higgins	b. c1544	688	poet and linguist	7%
Philemon Holland	1552-1637	8,021	translator	7%
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800-1859	5,176	historian, essayist, and poet	7%
William Blackstone	1723-1780	2,182	legal writer and judge	7%
William Congreve	1670-1729	784	playwright and poet	7%
William H. Smyth	1788-1865	1,961	naval officer and surveyor	7%
William Langland	c1325-c1390	5,655	poet	7%
William Tyndale	c1494-1536	855	translator of the Bible and religious reformer	7%
Edward Bulwer-Lytton	1803-1873	3,430	writer and politician	6%
Eric Partridge	1894-1979	676	lexicographer and etymologist	6%
George Wither	1588-1667	817	poet	6%
James Russell Lowell	1819-1891	2,177	author and diplomat	6%
John Addington Symonds	1840-1893	736	writer and advocate of sexual reform	6%
John Evelyn	1620-1706	4,937	diarist and writer	6%
John Gower	d. 1408	4,874	poet	6%
John Lyly	1554-1606	1,584	writer and playwright	6%
John Marston	bap. 1576, d. 1634	1,962	poet and playwright	6%
John Morley	1838-1923	1,164	politician and writer	6%
John Rolland	fl. 1528-1580	749	poet	6%
Matthew Prior	1664-1721	1,327	poet and diplomat	6%
Michael Drayton	1536-1631	2,244	poet	6%
Richard Carew	1555-1620	1,061	antiquary and poet	6%
Samuel Rowlands	fl. 1598-1628	710	satirist	6%
Thomas Dekker	c1572-1632	2,288	playwright and pamphleteer	6%
William Cruise	d. 1824	804	legal writer	6%
William Stubbs	1825-1901	666	historian and bishop of Oxford	6%
Algernon Swinburne	1837-1909	1,184	poet and literary reviewer	5%
George Crabbe	1754-1832	840	poet and Church of England clergyman	5%
John Galt	1779-1839	1,249	novelist	5%
John Speed	d. 1629	1,379	historian and cartographer	5%
Nicholas Breton	?1555-c1626	820	poet	5%
Philip Massinger	1583-1640	1,363	playwright	5%
Richard Brome	c1590-1652	953	playwright	5%
Richard Rolle	a1310-1349	2,582	hermit and religious author	5%
Richard Tomlinson	fl. 1657	955	(none given)	5%
Thomas Nashe	d. c1601	3,501	writer	5%
William Carpenter	1813-1885	662	biologist and university administrator	5%
William Kirby	1759-1850	1,912	entomologist and naturalist	5%
William Prescott	1796-1859	721	(none given)	5%
2nd Baron Berners	c1467-1533	3,872	soldier, diplomat, and translator	4%
2nd Earl of Monmouth	1596-1661	1,018	translator	4%
Alexander Barclay	c1484-1552	1,387	poet and clergyman	4%
Archibald Lovell	fl. 1663-1687	813	(none given)	4%
Arthur Helps	1813-1875	682	public servant and author	4%
Charles Cotton	1630-1687	1,260	poet and translator	4%
Charles Lyell	1797-1875	1,152	geologist	4%
David Lindsay	c1486-1555	1,057	writer and herald	4%
Earl of Surrey	?1517-1547	816	poet and soldier	4%
Edward Peacock	1831-1915	993	(none given)	4%
Edward Pusey	1800-1882	964	Church of England clergyman and theologian	4%
Elliott Coues	1842-1889	669	naturalist and historian	4%
Fanny Burney	1752-1840	2,490	writer	4%
Francis Grose	d. 1791	1,312	antiquary	4%
Frederic Farrar	1831-1903	1,462	dean of Canterbury, novelist, and philologist	4%
Frederick Elworthy	1830-1907	795	philologist and antiquary	4%
George Faber	1773-1854	724	Church of England clergyman and religious writer	4%
George Grote	1794-1871	1,165	historian and politician	4%
Harriet Martineau	1802-1876	1,632	writer and journalist	4%
Hary	c1440-c1492	1,684	poet	4%
Helkiah Crooke	1576-1648	1,050	physician and anatomist	4%
Henry Cockeram	fl. 1623-1658	1,561	lexicographer	4%
Henry Lovelich	fl. 1450	818	poet	4%
Hugh Latimer	c1485-1555	951	bishop of Worcester, preacher, and protestant martyr	4%
James A. Froude	1818-1894	1,675	historian and man of letters	4%
James Dana	1813-1895	2,202	geologist, zoologist, and teacher	4%
James Hogg	d. 1835	879	poet and novelist	4%
John Arbuthnot	bap. 1667, d. 1735	1,070	physician and satirist	4%
John Banister	1532/3-?1610	895	surgeon	4%
John Barbour	c1330-1395	2,567	ecclesiastic and verse historian	4%
John Bulwer	bap. 1606, d. 1656	898	medical practitioner and writer on deafness and on gesture	4%
John Capgrave	1393-1464	1,181	prior of Bishop's Lynn, theologian, and historian	4%
John Daus	c1516-1602	1,677	schoolmaster and translator	4%
John Fitzherbert	d. 1531	1,437	(none given)	4%
John Florio	1553-1625	3,875	author and teacher of languages	4%
John Fryer	d. 1733	994	traveller and writer	4%
John Gaule	1603/4-1687	898	Church of England clergyman and author	4%
John Gerard	c1545-1612	1,681	herbalist	4%
John Skelton	c1460-1529	2,247	poet	4%
John Smeaton	1724-1792	884	civil engineer	4%
John Trapp	1601-1669	1,261	Church of England clergyman and writer on theology	4%
Joseph Moxon	1627-1691	1,753	printer and globe maker	4%
Kenelm Digby	1603-1665	736	natural philosopher and courtier	4%
Layamon	fl. 1250	5,684	poet	4%
Maria Edgeworth	1768-1849	1,426	novelist and educationist	4%
Mark Pattison	1813-1884	803	college head and scholar	4%
Mary Braddon	1835-1915	1,442	novelist	4%
Miles Coverdale	1488-1569	910	Bible translator and bishop of Exeter	4%
Nehemiah Grew	a1641-1712	1,399	botanist and physician	4%
Nicholas Culpeper	1616-1654	893	physician and astrologer	4%
Osbern Bokenham	c1393-c1464	679	poet and Augustinian friar	4%
Ouida	1839-1908	822	novelist	4%
Owen Felltham	?1602-1668	931	essayist and poet	4%
Randle Cotgrave	fl. 1587-?1630	5,531	lexicographer	4%
Raphael Holinshed	c1525-?1580	904	historian	4%
Richard Allestree	d. 1681	699	Church of England clergyman	4%
Richard Henry Dana	1815-1882	812	lawyer and author	4%
Richard Kirwan	1733-1812	834	chemist and mineralogist	4%
Robert Fabyan	d. 1513	1,699	chronicler	4%
Robert Forby	1759-1825	854	philologist	4%
Robert Henryson	d. c1490	1,034	poet	4%
Robert Lindsay	c1532-c1586	779	historian	4%
Robert Lovell	?1630-1690	775	naturalist	4%
Roger Ascham	d. 1568	942	author and royal tutor	4%
Rolf Boldrewood	1826-1915	1,048	novelist	4%
Samuel Crockett	1859-1914	870	Free Church of Scotland minister and novelist	4%
Samuel Foote	bap. 1721, d. 1777	1,209	actor and playwright	4%
T. Clifford Allbutt	1836-1925	3,263	physician	4%
Thomas Becon	1512/13-1567	800	theologian and Church of England clergyman	4%
Thomas Blount	1618-1679	3,842	antiquary and lexicographer	4%
Thomas Drant	c1540-1578	757	poet and Church of England clergyman	4%
Thomas Hearne	d. 1735	927	antiquary and diarist	4%
Thomas Starkey	c1498-1538	725	humanist and royal servant	4%
Walter Besant	1836-1901	966	writer and campaigner for authors' rights	4%
Walter Charleton	1620-1707	791	physician and natural philosopher	4%
William Bonde	d. 1530	2,216	Bridgettine monk and author	4%
William Drummond	1585-1649	868	poet and pamphleteer	4%
William Fulke	d. 1589	1,039	theologian and college head	4%
William Paley	1743-1805	675	theologian and moralist	4%
William Petty	1623-1687	722	natural philosopher and administrator in Ireland	4%
William Prynne	1600-1669	1,228	pamphleteer and lawyer	4%
William T. Brande	1788-1866	896	chemist	4%
William Temple	1628-1699	714	diplomat and author	4%
Andrew Ure	1778-1857	1,915	chemist	3%
Barnabe Googe	1540-1594	1,860	poet and translator	3%
Charlotte Yonge	1823-1901	1,394	novelist	3%
Claudius Hollyband	fl. 1573-1583	732	linguist and writer	3%
Edmund Hickeringill	d. 1708	696	Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist	3%
Edward Grimeston	fl. 1604-1634	1,048	translator	3%
Francis Quarles	1592-1644	1,461	poet	3%
George A. Sala	1828-1895	1,320	journalist	3%
George Gascoigne	d. 1577	1,585	author and soldier	3%
Henry Hallam	1777-1859	1,052	historian	3%
Henry Hexham	fl. 1601-1650	868	soldier and author	3%
Henry Lyte	1529-1607	1,837	botanist and antiquary	3%
Henry Mayhew	1812-1887	1,189	author and social reformer	3%
Henry Milman	1791-1868	874	historian and dean of St Paul's	3%
James Dalrymple	fl. c1596	1,212	(none given)	3%
James Halliwell	1820-1889	1,006	antiquary and literary scholar	3%
James Mabbe	d. ?1642	856	translator	3%
James Yonge	fl. 1405-1434	759	translator	3%
John Bellenden	c1495-a1548	1,487	poet and translator	3%
John Lindley	1799-1865	3,338	botanist and horticulturist	3%
John Loudon	1783-1843	1,372	landscape gardener and horticultural writer	3%
John Lydgate	c1370-c1449	7,249	poet and prior of Hatfield Regis	3%
John Mortimer	?1656-1736	881	writer on agriculture	3%
John Motley	1814-1877	649	historian and diplomat	3%
John Palsgrave	d. 1554	5,384	teacher and scholar of languages	3%
John Trevisa	c1342-?1402	9,090	translator	3%
John Tyndall	1820-1893	2,200	physicist and mountaineer	3%
Mary Russell Mitford	1787-1855	1,135	playwright and writer	3%
Nicholas Udall	1504-1556	2,887	schoolmaster and playwright	3%
Peter Levens	fl. 1552-1587	1,183	lexicographer	3%
Peter Motteux	1663-1718	797	journalist and translator	3%
Peter Simmonds	1814-1897	1,167	newsagent and journalist	3%
Ralph Cudworth	1617-1688	1,285	philosopher and theologian	3%
Reginald Pecock	c1392-?1459	2,260	bishop of Chichester and religious author	3%
Richard Brathwait	?1588-1673	1,461	poet and writer	3%
Richard Heslop	1842-1916	738	(none given)	3%
Richard Knolles	d. 1610	817	historian and translator	3%
Richard Surflet	fl. 1600-1616	953	translator	3%
Robert Mannyng	d. c1338	4,484	poet and historian	3%
Robert Plot	bap. 1640, d. 1696	887	naturalist and antiquary	3%
Robley Dunglison	1798-1869	956	physician and medical writer	3%
Samuel Hieron	d. 1617	762	Church of England clergyman and devotional writer	3%
Samuel Smiles	1812-1904	763	biographer and didact	3%
Thomas Blundeville	fl. 1561	751	author and translator	3%
Thomas D'Urfey	?1653-1723	937	playwright and writer	3%
Thomas Elyot	c1490-1546	2,601	humanist and diplomat	3%
Thomas Martyn	1735-1825	882	botanist	3%
Walter Savage Landor	1775-1864	828	poet and author	3%
William Dampier	1651-1715	1,098	buccaneer and explorer	3%
William Davenant	1606-1668	650	poet, playwright, and theatre manager	3%
William Dean Howells	1837-1920	1,027	author	3%
William Falconer	1732-1770	1,366	poet and lexicographer	3%
William Lambarde	1536-1601	919	antiquary and lawyer	3%
William Lithgow	1582-c1645	1,690	traveller	3%
Ælfric of Eynsham	c950-c1010	4,509	Benedictine abbot of Eynsham and scholar	2%
Colley Cibber	1671-1757	701	actor, writer, and theatre manager	2%
Connop Thirlwall	1797-1875	1,093	historian and bishop of St David's	2%
Edward Stillingfleet	1635-1699	821	bishop of Worcester and theologian	2%
Edward Topsell	d. 1625	2,629	Church of England clergyman and author	2%
Fynes Moryson	?1566-1630	1,418	traveller and writer	2%
George Puttenham	1529-?1591	1,181	writer and literary critic	2%
George Rolleston	1829-1881	957	physician and physiologist	2%
George Sandys	1578-1644	1,313	writer and traveller	2%
George Turberville	c1543-c1597	1,027	poet and translator	2%
Henry Wotton	1568-1639	770	diplomat and writer	2%
John Skene	c1540-1617	770	jurist	2%
John Strype	1643-1737	767	historian and biographer	2%
John Worlidge	d. 1693	672	writer on agriculture	2%
Joseph Glanvill	1636-1680	861	Church of England clergyman	2%
Joshua Sylvester	d. 1618	2,884	poet and translator	2%
Narcissus Luttrell	1657-1732	817	annalist and book collector	2%
Peter Heylyn	1599-1662	1,044	Church of England clergyman and historian	2%
Philip Stubbes	c1555-c1610	788	pamphleteer	2%
Richard Huloet	fl. 1552	1,841	lexicographer	2%
Richard Mulcaster	?1532-1611	796	schoolmaster and author	2%
Richard Stanyhurst	1547-1618	1,782	literary scholar and translator	2%
Robert Record	c1512-1558	784	mathematician	2%
Roger L'Estrange	1616-1704	1,127	author and press censor	2%
R.S. Surtees	1805-1864	659	author	2%
Samuel Purchas	bap. 1577, d. 1626	2,148	geographical editor and compiler and Church of England clergyman	2%
Samuel Sturmy	1633-1669	665	writer on seamanship	2%
Thomas Hoccleve	c1367-1426	1,319	poet and clerk	2%
Thomas Pennant	1726-1798	1,719	naturalist, traveller, and writer	2%
Thomas Phaer	?1510-1560	726	translator and physician	2%
Thomas Shadwell	c1640-1692	725	playwright and poet	2%
Thomas Tusser	c1524-1580	1,130	writer on agriculture and poet	2%
Thomas Urquhart	1611-1660	1,505	author and translator	2%
William Withering	1741-1799	897	physician and botanist	2%

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