The Rev. Dr. Preston, lord bishop of Killala and Ferns.

Christopher Phillipson, a barrister, and a major in the army.

Robert Phillipson, a bencher of the Middle Temple.

Dr. Postlethwaite, master of Trinity college, Cambridge.

Dr. Barnaby Potter, provost of Queen's college, Oxford, and lord bishop of Carlisle.

Dr. Thomas Savage, of Queen's college, Oxford, Master of the Rolls, lord chancellor, bishop of Durham, archbishop of York, ambassador to Rome, and Cardinal St. Prazides.

Dr. Thomas Shaw, principal of Edmund-hall, Oxford, regius professor of Greek, and known to the Learned World by his Travels to Barbary and the Levant, &c. &c.

Jeremiah Seed, an able orthodox divine, and an amiable man, whose writings were much esteemed.

The Rev. Dr. Shepherd, professor of experimental philosophy at Cambridge.

The Rev. John Smith, famed for his historical works of the Venerable Bede.

Dr. Thomas Smith, of Queen's college, Oxford, and Lord bishop of Carlisle.

The Rev. Dr. John Taylor, noted for his Hebrew-English Concordance.

Mr. Thomas Taylor, who complied (a modern work) the best book of Logarithms ever published.

Thomas Tickell, esq. an ingenious poet and author, and contemporary with Addison, Steele, &c.

Dr. John Waugh, of Queen's college, Oxford, and lord bishop of Carlisle.

Sir John Wilson, a judge of the Common Pleas at Westminster.

The present Rev. Dr. Watson, lord bishop of Landaff.

Dr. Sir Isaac Pennington, Regius professor of physick.

Sir Alan Chambre, a judge of the Common Pleas at Westminster.

Dr. Ainslie, of the College of Physicians, London.

Daniel Braithwaite, esq. F.R.S. of the antient family at Ambleside.

Adam Walker, the philosophical lecturer in London, &c. &c.

Romney, Cranke, and Gardner, three ingenious artists.

Messrs. Millers, Ainslie, Hall, Bell, Harrison, and Hudson, young gentlemen of great promise in the University of Cambridge and at the Bar.

It has been supposed that the ancestors of the great naval hero, Lord Nelson, Duke of Bronti, resided near the borders of this Mear, on the west side of it.

Katharine, the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, and wife of Henry VIII. was born at Kendal, near the lake.

Anne, Countess of Pembroke was born not far distant; and her memory is with great reason respected in all the county of Westmorland, as well as on the banks of this delightful lake.