People mentioned in correspondence beginning with the letter "B"

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• John Bacon Sawrey Morritt  (b. 1772 - d. 1843)
• 1st Baron Montagu Boughton (née of) (b. March 18, 1735 - d. April 11, 1770)
  Also known as:

  • Lord Brundenell
• 8th Baron Brooke  (b. Oct. 10, 1719 - d. July 8, 1773)
  Also known as:

  • Francis Greville
  • 1st Earl Warwick
• 6th Baron Byron  (b. Dec. 26, 1751 - d. Nov. 1, 1793)
  Also known as:

  • George Gordon
  • Lord Gordon
• 6th Baron Byron  (b. Jan. 22, 1788 - d. April 19, 1824)
  Also known as:

  • Lord Byron
  • George Noel Gordon
• 18th Baron de Clifford  (b. Aug. 30, 1644 - d. July 30, 1729)
• 1st Baron Collingwood  (b. Sept. 26, 1748 - d. March 7, 1810)
  Also known as:

  • Admiral Collingwood
• 2nd Baron Conway  (b. July 5, 1718 - d. June 14, 1794)
  Also known as:

  • Viscount Beauchamp
  • Lord Hartford
  • Viceroy of Ireland
• 3rd Baron Crew  (b. Jan. 31, 1633 - d. Sept. 18, 1721)
• 11th Baron Le Despencer  (b. 1708 - d. Dec. 11, 1781)
• 2nd Baron Edgcumbe  (b. Aug. 2, 1716 - d. May 10, 1761)
  Also known as:

  • Richard Edgcumbe
• 2nd Baron Fortescue  (b. March 31, 1719 - d. July 10, 1785)
  Also known as:

  • Matthew Fortescue
• 2nd Baron Grantham  (b. Nov. 30, 1738 - d. July 20, 1786)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Robinson
• 6th Baron Craven Hamsted Marshall (née of) (b. Sept. 11, 1738 - d. Sept. 27, 1791)
  Also known as:

  • Lord Craven
• 1st Baron Harcourt  (b. 1661 - d. July 1, 1720)
  Also known as:

  • Simon Harcourt
  • 1st Viscount Harcourt
• 1st Baron Hawke  (b. Feb. 21, 1705 - d. Oct. 17, 1781)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Hawke
• 5th Baron Hyde  (b. Nov. 28, 1710 - d. May 28, 1753)
  Also known as:

  • Viscount Hyde
• 2nd Baron Leominster  (b. March 23, 1698 - d. June 15, 1753)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Fermor
• 1st Baron Liddell  (b. 1708 - d. Jan. 30, 1784)
  Also known as:

  • Henry Liddell
  • 4th Baronet Liddell
• 1st Baron Lyttelton  (b. Dec. 24, 1724 - d. Sept. 14, 1808)
  Also known as:

  • William Henry Lyttelton
  • Governor of South Carolina
  • Lord Westcote
• 2nd Baron Lyttelton  (b. Jan. 30, 1744 - d. Nov. 29, 1779)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Lyttelton
• 1st Baron Lyttelton  (b. Jan. 17, 1709 - d. Aug. 22, 1773)
  Also known as:

  • George Lyttelton
  • Sir George Lyttelton
• 1st Baron Mendip  (b. Dec. 15, 1713 - d. Feb. 2, 1802)
  Also known as:

  • Welbore Ellis
• 2nd Baron Mulgrave  (b. May 30, 1744 - d. Oct. 10, 1792)
• 1st Baron Newhaven  (b. 1722 - d. May 28, 1794)
  Also known as:

  • William Mayne
• 1st Baron Pigot  (b. May 4, 1719 - d. May 11, 1777)
  Also known as:

  • George Pigot
• 2nd Baron Plassey  (b. March 7, 1754 - d. May 16, 1839)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Clive
• 1st Baron Rodney  (b. 1719 - d. May 24, 1792)
  Also known as:

  • George Bridges Rodney
• 1st Baron Rokeby  (b. 1709 - d. Oct. 10, 1794)
  Also known as:

  • Archbishop of Armagh
  • Primate of All Ireland
  • Richard Robinson
  • Richard Rt Revd. Robinson
• 5th Baron Rokeby  (b. July 6, 1787 - d. April 7, 1847)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Montagu
• 2nd Baron Romney  (b. Aug. 22, 1712 - d. Nov. 16, 1793)
  Also known as:

  • Robert Marsham
• 1st Baron Southwell  (b. 1665 - d. Aug. 4, 1720)
• 1st Baron Thurlow  (b. Dec. 9, 1731 - d. Sept. 12, 1806)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Thurlow
• 1st Baron Walsingham  (b. July 7, 1719 - d. May 9, 1781)
  Also known as:

  • William de Grey
• 6th Baron Ward  (b. March 6, 1704 - d. May 6, 1774)
  Also known as:

  • John Ward 1st Ward (née  Viscount)
• 14th Baron Willoughby  (b. Aug. 5, 1738 - d. Feb. 15, 1816)
  Also known as:

  • John Perto-Verney
• 1st Baron Wraxall  (b. April 8, 1751 - d. Nov. 7, 1831)
  Also known as:

  • Nathaniel Wraxall
• 1st Baroness Holland   (b. March 27, 1723 - d. July 24, 1774)
  Also known as:

  • Caroline (née  Lennox)
  • Georgiana Caroline Fox
• 9th Baroness Conyers  (b. Oct. 12, 1754 - d. Jan. 26, 1784)
  Also known as:

  • Amelia Darcy
  • 12th Baroness Darcy de Knayth
• 12th Baroness Darcy de Knayth  (b. Oct. 12, 1754 - d. Jan. 26, 1784)
  Also known as:

  • 9th Baroness Conyers
  • Amelia Darcy
• 1st Baroness Greenwich  (b. Nov. 17, 1717 - d. Jan. 11, 1794)
• 2nd Baronet Bridges  (b. 1709 - d. 1733)
  Also known as:

  • Brook Bridges
• 3rd Baronet Croft  (b. 1731 - d. Nov. 30, 1792)
  Also known as:

  • Archer Croft
• 2nd Baronet Croft  (b. 1683 - d. Dec. 10, 1753)
  Also known as:

  • Archer Croft
• 4th Baronet Delves  (b. Oct. 4, 1652 - d. Sept. 12, 1727)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Delves
• 1st Baronet Dundas  (b. 1710 - d. Sept. 18, 1781)
  Also known as:

  • Lawrence Dundas
• 3rd Baronet Gray  (b. 1708 - d. Feb. 14, 1773)
  Also known as:

  • George Gray
• 2nd Baronet Gray  (b. 1708 - d. Feb. 14, 1773)
  Also known as:

  • James Gray
  • Sir James Gray
• 1st Baronet Gray  (b. 1667 - d. Oct. 27, 1722)
  Also known as:

  • James Gray
  • Sir James Gray
• 4th Baronet Hales  (b. 1726 - d. March 18, 1773)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Pym Hales
• 4th Baronet Hardres  (b. July 25, 1686 - d. July 7, 1736)
  Also known as:

  • William Hardres
• 1st Baronet Hoare  (b. 1735 - d. 1787)
  Also known as:

  • Richard Hoare
• 2nd Baronet Hoare  (b. Dec. 9, 1758 - d. May 19, 1838)
• 3rd Baronet Johnstone 
  Also known as:

  • James Johnstone
• 8th Baronet Knatchbull  (b. May 22, 1758 - d. Sept. 1, 1819)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Knatchbull
• 7th Baronet Knatchbull  (b. Dec. 12, 1704 - d. Nov. 21, 1789)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Knatchbull
• 4th Baronet Knatchbull  (b. 1674 - d. April 3, 1730)
  Also known as:

  • Edward Knatchbull
• 5th Baronet Liddell  (b. Nov. 25, 1749 - d. Nov. 26, 1791)
  Also known as:

  • Henry St George Liddell
• 4th Baronet Liddell  (b. 1708 - d. Jan. 30, 1784)
  Also known as:

  • Henry Liddell
  • 1st Baron Liddell
• 4th Baronet Lyttelton  (b. 1686 - d. Sept. 14, 1751)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Lyttelton
• 3rd Baronet of Minto  (b. 1722 - d. Feb. 11, 1777)
  Also known as:

  • Gilbert Elliot
• 7th Baronet Pulteney  (b. 1755 - d. April 26, 1811)
  Also known as:

  • James Murray Pulteney
• 1st Baronet Robinson  (b. 1703 - d. March 3, 1777)
  Also known as:

  • Thomas Robinson
• 1st Baronet Robinson  (b. Feb. 15, 1754 - d. April 16, 1832)
  Also known as:

  • Archdeacon of Armagh
  • John Freind
  • John Freind Robinson
• 2nd Baronet Robinson  (b. 1704 - d. Sept. 18, 1785)
  Also known as:

  • William Robinson
• 7th Baronet Savile  (b. Feb. 10, 1678 - d. Sept. 16, 1743)
  Also known as:

  • George Savile
• 5th Baronet St Quintin  (b. 1729 - d. July 22, 1795)
  Also known as:

  • William St Quintin
• 1st Baronet Stanhope  (b. 1721 - d. April 3, 1803)
  Also known as:

  • James William Montgomery
• 5th Baronet Stanley  (b. Sept. 27, 1689 - d. Feb. 22, 1776)
  Also known as:

  • Sir Edward Stanley
• 4th Baronet Temple  (b. Oct. 24, 1675 - d. Sept. 13, 1749)
  Also known as:

  • 1st Viscount Cobham
  • Richard Temple
• 7th Baronet Wrottesley  (b. April 12, 1721 - d. July 20, 1769)
  Also known as:

  • Richard Wrottesley
• William Beauchamp Proctor  (b. May 11, 1722 - d. Sept. 13, 1773)
• Lady Betty Bentinck  (b. July 27, 1735 - d. Dec. 12, 1825)
  Also known as:

  • Marchioness of Bath
  • Lady Elizabeth Bentinck
  • Elizabeth Thynne (née  Cavendish-Bentinck)
• Charles Brian Blagden  (b. April 17, 1748 - d. March 26, 1820)
• George Bridges Rodney  (b. 1719 - d. May 24, 1792)
  Also known as:

  • 1st Baron Rodney
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan  (b. Oct. 30, 1751 - d. July 7, 1816)
• Baron Brooke Greville  (b. 1694 - d. July 28, 1727)
• Viscount Bruce of Ampthill  (b. May 29, 1682 - d. Feb. 10, 1747)
  Also known as:

  • Lord Bruce
  • 4th Earl of Elgin
• George Bryan Brummell  (b. June 7, 1778 - d. May 30, 1840)
  Also known as:

  • Beau Brummell
  • George Bryan Brummell
  • Beau Brummell
• George Bryan Brummell  (b. June 7, 1778 - d. May 30, 1840)
  Also known as:

  • George Bryan Brummell
  • Beau Brummell
  • Beau Brummell
• George Bubb Doddington  (b. 1691 - d. July 28, 1762)
  Also known as:

  • George Bubb
  • Lord Melcombe
  • Baron Melcombe
• George Bussy Villiers  (b. June 9, 1751 - d. Aug. 22, 1805)
  Also known as:

  • 4th Earl of Jersey
  • Lord Viliers

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