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• Browning, Sr., Robert (1782–1866), RB’s father. Clerk at the Bank of England. In AB-3. See biographical sketch.
• Browning, William Shergold (1797–1874), RB’s half-uncle. In AB-2, AB-3, AB-4, AB-5.
• Bruce, Elizabeth (née Oswald, 1790–1860), Lady Elgin, wife of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. In AB-3, AB-4.
• Bruce, Henry Austin (1815–95), 1st Baron Aberdare of Duffryn, politician. In AB-5.
• Bruce, Lady Augusta Frederica Elizabeth (afterwards Stanley, 1822–76), courtier, dau. of 7th Earl of Elgin and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Oswald. In AB-5.
• Bruce, Norah Creina Blanche (née Napier, 1827–97), Baroness Aberdare of Duffryn, proponent of women’s education and wife of Henry Austin Bruce (1815–95), 1st Baron Aberdare of Duffryn.
• Bruce, Robert (1813–62), British Army officer, served as governor to the young Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
• Bruce, Thomas (1766–1841), 7th Earl of Elgin and eleventh Earl of Kincardine, diplomatist and army officer.
• Bruen, Mary Ann (née Davenport, 1793–1892), mother of Frances Davenport Perkins. Friend and correspondent of the Brownings.
• Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878), American author. In AB-4.
• Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841–1901), poet and novelist.
• Buloz, Christine Marie Euphrosine (née Castil-Blaze, 1815–89), spouse of François Buloz.
• Buloz, François (1803–77), French littératur, magazine editor, and theater administrator. In AB-3, AB-4.
• Bulwer, Georgiana Charlotte Mary (née Wellesley, 1817–78), dau. of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, and the niece of the duke of Wellington. Wife of Henry Bulwer.
• Bulwer, Henry Lytton Earle (1801–72), Baron Dalling and Bulwer, diplomatist. In AB-3.
• Bulwer-Lytton, see Lytton, Bulwer-.
• Bunn, Alfred (1796–1860), theatre manager and librettist.
• Bunsen, Ernest de (1819–1903), Prussian-born biblical scholar. In AB-5, AB-6.
• Burges, George (1786?–1864), classical scholar.
• Burgwyn, Sarah Emily (1823–1905), of New Bern, North Carolina, a visitor to Florence in 1858.
• Burke, Edmund (1729–97), politician and author.
• Burney, Frances (“Fanny”), (afterwards D‘Arbley, 1752–1840), writer.
• Burns, Robert (1759–96), Scottish poet and lyricist.
• Burridge, Levi Spear (1829–87), American dentist residing in Europe. In AB-4.
• Butler, Arabella (“Cissy”), (1827–43), EBB’s cousin.