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• Barsotti, Alessandro, Brownings’ Italian servant, 1848–51.
• Baskett, John (d. 1742), stationer and printer.
• Bate, Camilla Ottilie (afterwards Watson, later Dix, b. 1835), sister of Gerardine Macpherson.
• Bate, Louisa (née Murphy, d. 1871, aged 74), mother of Gerardine Macpherson.
• Bate, Louisa Gerardine (“Geddie”), (afterwards Macpherson, 1829–78), biographer and book illustrator. In AB-1, AB-4.
• Bayford, Augustus (1809–74), EBB’s second cousin. In AB-3, AB-4.
• Bayford, Frances (née Heseltine, 1781–1848), EBB’s cousin. In AB-1.
• Bayford, James Heseltine (1804–71), EBB’s cousin.
• Bayford, John (d. 1844, aged 71), spouse of EBB’s cousin Frances Bayford (née Heseltine).
• Bayford, Julia (afterwards de Salis Soglio, 1814–98), EBB’s cousin.
• Bayley, Sarah (1783–1868), close friend and companion of John Kenyon. In AB-1, AB-3, AB-4, AB-5.
• Bayne, Alicia (née Pryme, 1814–83), London hostess. Second cousin of William Makepeace Thackeray. In AB-4, AB-5, AB-6.
• Beaumont, Francis (1584–1616), playwright.
• Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–49), poet.
• Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–87), pastor.
• Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827), German composer.
• Bell, Alexander Melville (1819–1905), writer on speech and speech therapy.
• Bellew, John Chippendall Montesquieu (né Higgin, 1823–74), cleric, known for his public readings.
• Belloc, Elizabeth (“Bessie”) Rayner (née Parkes, 1829–1925), campaigner for women’s rights and journalist. In AB-3, AB-4, AB-5, AB-6.
• Bene, Giuseppe Del, Pen’s Italian music master.
• Bennet, Georgiana (1812–76), writer.
• Bennett, William Cox (1820–95), journalist and author.
• Bennoch, Francis (1812–90), patron of authors and literature.
• Bensusan, Esther Levy (née Bravo, 1812–69), wife of Abraham Levy Bensusan (1797–1887), merchant.
• Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer.