Claude-François Milliet Dechales (1621 - 1678)
Springhill, County Londonderry
Mr de Jeney
Felbrigg, Norfolk
Maurice, Count of Saxony (1696-1750)
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
Stanislas Louis, Comte La Noue du Vair (1729-1761)
Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl.late 4th century)
Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40-103 AD)
John Locke (1632 – 1704)
Ray de Saint Geniès, Jacques-Marie
Bernard Forest de Belidor (1697-1761)
Antoine Pecquet (1704-1762)
Mount Stewart, County Down
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf (1632-1694)
Traiano Boccalini (1556-1613)
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Jacques Rohault (1618-1672)
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
Blondel, François, 1618-1686
Ozanne, Nicolas-Marie, 1728-1811
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623)
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Lacock, Wiltshire
Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle (1657-1757)
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)
Theodore Parrhase
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Sir John Fortescue (1394-1476)
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
Baudouin, Simon René, comte de, 1723-1797
Polyaenus (fl.2nd century)
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
Richard Blome (1635 - 1705)
James Tyrrell (1642-1718)
Algernon Sidney (1622-1683)
Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles (1608-1670)
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1530-1614)
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Sahuguet D'Amarzit, Baron d'Espagnac
Xenophon (c.430 - c.355 BC)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex
Richard Turner (1753-1788)
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
Lyme, Cheshire
Joannes Georgius Graevius (1632-1703)
Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi von, active 17th century