| Acres, Birt (1854?–1918), film-maker |
| Acton, Sir Robert (b. before 1497, d. 1558), saddler and member of parliament |
| Alleyne, Thomas (c.1488–1558), clergyman and benefactor |
| Allington, William (d. 1446), administrator and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Allington, Sir William (d. 1479), speaker of the House of Commons |
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| Ashwell, Mary (fl. 1662–1664) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
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| Aske, Robert (1619–1689), silk merchant and benefactor |
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| Bambatha ka Mancinza (1865/6–1906), chief and rebel in Natal |
| Bancroft, Francis (1667–1728), financial agent and benefactor |
| Barker, William George (1868–1951), film producer |
| Barker (fl. 1665–1667) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Barnett, Henry Walter (1862–1934), photographer |
| Barraud, Herbert Rose (1844/5–1896), photographer |
| Bassano, Alexander (1829–1913), photographer and artist |
| Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochfort Trevor- (1855–1922), traveller and naturalist |
| Baynard, Richard (1371–1434), lawyer and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Bayning, Paul (c.1539–1616), merchant |
| Beard, Richard (1801–1885), photographic entrepreneur |
| Beresford, George Charles (1864–1938), photographer and memoirist |
| Birch, Jane (b. 1643/4, d. after 1703) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Birch, Wayneman (fl. 1660–1663) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Bird, Walter Leonard Frederick (1903–1969), photographer |
| Borlase, Sir William (c.1562–1629), politician and benefactor |
| Bowker, Agnes (b. 1541/2), servant and alleged mother of a cat |
| Box, Henry (1585–1662), educational benefactor |
| Box, Mary (d. 1679), educational benefactor [see under Box, Henry (1585–1662)] |
| Brooke, Frances, Lady Cobham (b. after 1530, d. 1592), courtier |
| Brookes, John Henry (1891–1975), educational administrator and craftsman |
| Burn, Amos (1848–1925), chess player |
| Calle, Richard (d. in or after 1503), administrator and land agent |
| Cameron, William (c.1787–1851), pedlar and beggar |
| Campbell, Henry James (1813–1889), textile merchant and school founder |
| Carrick, William (1827–1878), photographer |
| Clifford, Charles (1819?–1863), photographer |
| Collier, Richard (1480x85?–1533), mercer and benefactor |
| Cooke, Joan (d. 1544/5) [see under Cooke, John (d. 1528)] |
| Cooke, John (d. 1528), mercer and benefactor |
| Coster, Howard Sydney Musgrave (1885–1959), photographer |
| Cottesmore, John (d. 1439), justice |
| Crawford, John (1775–1831), sailor and naval hero |
| Crowther, James Gerald (1899–1983), science journalist and administrator |
| Cundall, Joseph (1818–1895), publisher and photographer |
| Cure, Thomas (d. 1588), saddler |
| Dauntsey, William (c.1480–1543), merchant and benefactor |
| Dewhurst, Robert (1576/7–1645), lawyer and benefactor |
| Dormer, Sir William (1512?–1575) [see under Pelham, Dorothy, Lady Pelham (d. 1613)] |
| Dowe, Robert (c.1523–1612), merchant and benefactor |
| Dyer, John (1653/4–1713), newsletter writer |
| Edwards, Huw Thomas (1892–1970), trade unionist and politician in Wales |
| Edwards, Thomas (d. 1681) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Ellis, Thomas (d. 1562), merchant and benefactor |
| Englefield, Sir Thomas (1455–1514), royal councillor and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Evans, Evan (1795–1855), Welsh-language poet |
| Falcieri, Giovanni Battista (1798–1874), servant |
| Fish, Walter (d. 1585), tailor |
| Fitzwilliam, Sir Thomas (d. 1497), lawyer and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Fontane, Theodor (1819–1898), novelist and travel writer |
| French, (Leonard) John (1907–1966), photographer |
| Gainsborough, Humphrey (bap. 1718, d. 1776), Independent minister and engineer |
| Glaisher, Cecilia Louisa (1828–1892), photographer |
| Godolphin, Elizabeth (bap. 1663, d. 1726), benefactor |
| Gosnell, Winifred (fl. 1662–1669) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Green, John (d. 1473), lawyer and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Hardcastle, Joseph (1752–1819), merchant and evangelical activist |
| Hardman, Edward Fitzmaurice Chambré (1898–1988), photographer |
| Hardye, Thomas (d. 1599), benefactor |
| Harrower, John (1733–1777?), indentured servant and journal writer |
| Hartley, David (c.1731–1770), coiner |
| Heath, (Robert) Vernon (1819/20–1895), photographer |
| Herwarth, Philibert, Baron von Hüningen (1644–1721), diplomat and benefactor |
| Hinton, Alfred Horsley (1863–1908), photographer |
| Hopley, Thomas (1819–1876), schoolmaster and convicted homicide |
| Howard, Aletheia, countess of Arundel, of Surrey, and of Norfolk, and suo jure Baroness Furnivall, Baroness Talbot, and Baroness Strange of Blackmere (d. 1654), patron and collector of art |
| Howard, Katherine, countess of Nottingham (1545x50–1603), courtier |
| Hughes, Victoria (1897–1978), lavatory attendant and author |
| Husee, John (d. 1548), agent and soldier |
| Inman, Philip Albert, Baron Inman (1892–1979), hospital administrator and businessman |
| James, John (d. 1680) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Jenkins, John (1770–1829), Church of England clergyman and antiquary |
| Juyn, Sir John (d. 1440), justice |
| Kebbel, Thomas Edward (1826–1917), journalist |
| Kenyon, James (1850–1925), film-maker [see under Mitchell, Sagar Jones (1866–1952)] |
| Kernahan, (John) Coulson (1858–1943), writer and promoter of compulsory military service |
| Kernahan, Mary Jane Hickling (1857–1941) [see under Kernahan, (John) Coulson (1858–1943)] |
| Knollys, Katherine, Lady Knollys (c.1523–1569), courtier |
| Lamb, Roger (1756–1830), soldier and writer |
| Lemere, (Henry) Bedford (1865–1944), architectural photographer |
| Little, Clement (c.1527–1580), lawyer and benefactor |
| Lucraft, Benjamin (1809–1897), cabinet-maker and political activist |
| Mackenzie, Colin (1697/8–1775), physician and man-midwife |
| Marjoribanks, John (1758/9–1796), poet and army officer |
| Mayne, Ethelind Frances Colburn (1865–1941), author and translator |
| Mellers, Agnes (d. 1513/14), benefactor |
| Mellers, Richard (d. 1507) [see under Mellers, Agnes (d. 1513/)] |
| Mercer, Mary (b. 1647) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Mico, Jane, Lady Mico (b. in or before 1634, d. 1670) [see under Mico, Sir Samuel (d. 1666)] |
| Mico, Sir Samuel (d. 1666), merchant and benefactor |
| Mitchell, Sagar Jones (1866–1952), film-maker |
| Moat, Henry (1871–1940), servant |
| Moraley, William (1698–1762), indentured servant and writer |
| Morelli, Cesare (fl. 1673–1687) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Mortimer, Francis James (1874–1944), photographer, writer, and editor |
| Moulson, Ann, Lady Moulson (1576–1661), benefactor |
| Murray, John (1809–1898), army surgeon and photographer |
| Nicholls, Horace Walter (1867–1941), photographer |
| Pearman, John (1819–1908), soldier and autobiographer |
| Pelham, Dorothy, Lady Pelham (d. 1613), benefactor |
| Penlez, Bosavern (1726–1749), wigmaker and convicted rioter |
| Pepys, Paulina (1640–1689) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Plant, (Samuel) Cornell (1866–1921), river pilot and cartographer |
| Powell, (Ellen) Margaret (1907–1984), domestic servant and writer |
| Price, Chase (1731–1777), politician and wit |
| Price, William Frederick Lake (1810–1896), photographer and watercolourist |
| Radcliffe, Mary (c.1550–1617/18), courtier |
| Reckitt, Albert Leopold (1877–1947), chemical manufacturer and benefactor |
| Robson, Edward Robert (1835–1917), architect and surveyor |
| Rosee, Pasqua (fl. 1651–1656), coffee house keeper |
| Roysse, John (1500/01–1571), mercer and benefactor |
| St John, Ambrose (1815–1875), Roman Catholic priest and headmaster |
| Scudamore, Mary, Lady Scudamore (c.1550–1603), courtier |
| Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703) |
| Sexey, Hugh (d. 1619), lawyer and benefactor |
| Shen Fuzong (c.1658–1691), traveller and convert to Christianity |
| Skut, John (fl. 1519–1547), tailor |
| Smith, David (d. 1587), embroiderer and benefactor |
| Smith, Sir James (c.1621–1681), politician and benefactor |
| Stafford, Dorothy, Lady Stafford (1525x9–1604), courtier |
| Stanford, John Montague Benett- (1870–1947), cinematographer and landowner |
| Stoneman, Walter Ernest (1876–1958), photographer |
| Sturmy, Sir William (c.1356–1427), diplomat and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Symonds, Peter (c.1528–1586/7), mercer and benefactor |
| Thrift, John (d. 1752), public executioner and murderer |
| Tonge, Susan (b. before 1510, d. in or after 1564), courtier |
| Vandyk, Carl (1851–1931), photographer |
| Vandyk, Herbert (1879–1943), photographer [see under Vandyk, Carl (1851–1931)] |
| Ware, Richard of (d. 1283), abbot of Westminster |
| Watson, George (1654–1723), accountant and benefactor |
| Wigston, Roger (1482/3–1542) [see under Wyggeston, William (c.1467–1536)] |
| Willett, Deborah (b. 1650/51) [see under Servants of Samuel Pepys (act. 1658–1703)] |
| Williams, Sir John, baronet (1840–1926), physician and benefactor |
| Williams, Thomas Richard (1824–1871), photographer |
| Williamson, Joseph (1769–1840), tunnel builder and philanthropist |
| Wren, Walter (1834–1898), teacher |
| Wright, Thomas (1839–1909), engineer and social commentator |
| Wyggeston, William (c.1467–1536), merchant and benefactor |
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New reference groups |
| Aberdeen Philosophical Society (act. 1758–1773) |
| Arctic council (act. 1851) |
| Argathelians (act. 1705–c.1765) |
| Castalian band (act. 1584–1603) |
| Catholic Committee (act. 1782–1792) |
| Cynfeirdd (act. 6th–11th cent.) |
| Founders of the Royal Geographical Society of London (act. 1828–1830) |
| Founders of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (act. 1753–1783) |
| Goons (act. 1951–1960) |
| Hen bersoniaid llengar (act. 1818–1858) |
| Inklings (act. 1930–1960) |
| National Service League (act. 1902–1914) |
| Nonsense Club (act. c.1750–1764) |
| Patrons of the Mermaid tavern (act. 1611) |
| Pilgrim Fathers (act. 1620) |
| Smectymnuus (act. 1641) |
| Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights (act. 1769–1775) |
| Trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America (act. 1732–1752) |
| Union of Democratic Control (act. 1914–1924) |
| X Club (act. 1864–1892) |
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New features |
| Home front, 1939–1945 |
| Lives in service: servants in the Oxford DNB |
| Road to Suez |
| School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560 |
| The great fire of London |
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