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• Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), Italian scholar and poet.
• Peyton, Charlotte Lea (1813–42), eldest of the Peyton children of Barton Court.
• Peyton, Eliza (née Griffith, 1788–1861), Hope End neighbour.
• Peyton, Eliza Berry (afterwards Selwyn, 1827–1907), Hope End neighbour. In AB-7.
• Peyton, Elizabeth Rosetta (1824–74), Hope End neighbour. In AB-5.
• Peyton, Reynolds (1815–61), eldest son of Nicholson and Eliza Peyton of Barton Court.
• Philipson, Abramo (1805–60), the Brownings’ Florentine banker and financial agent.
• Phillpotts, Henry (1778–1869), Church of England bishop of Exeter.
• Phipps, Constantine Henry (1797–1863), 1st Marquess of Normanby, politician and diplomatist.
• Phipps, Maria (née Liddell, 1798–1882), Lady Normanby, wife of Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby.
• Pickering, Ellen (d. 1843), novelist.
• Pindar (522–443 B.C.), ancient Greek lyric poet.
• Piozzi, Hester Lynch (née Salusbury, formerly Thrale, 1741–1821), writer.
• Piozzi, Hester Lynch, see Thrale, Hester Lynch.
• Pius IX, (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, 1792–1878), (“Pio Nono”), assumed papacy June 1846.
• Plato (ca. 428–347 B.C.), Greek philosopher and mathematician.
• Plon-Plon,” see Bonaparte, Joseph Charles Paul.
• Plutarch (45–120), Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
• Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–49), American author and poet.
• Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), poet.
• Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste (1622–73), (pseud. “Molière”), French playwright and actor.
• Porson, Richard (1759–1808), classical scholar.
• Powell, Thomas (1809–87), poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger. In AB-2. See biographical sketch.
• Power, Marguerite Agnes (1821–67), writer. In AB-3, AB-4.
• Powers, Anna Barker Gibson (1841–1919), dau. of Hiram Powers.