Richard Steele
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Sir Richard Steele was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.
Portrait by Jonathan Richardson, 1712
c. 1712 kit-cat portrait of Steele by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Steele's house at Llangunnor, near Carmarthen, 1797
Of the 271 essays published in The Tatler journal, Joseph Addison (left) wrote 42, Steele (right) wrote roughly 188, and the rest were collaborations between the two writers.
Brian Stapylton
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Sir Brian Stapylton, 2nd Baronet, of Myton Hall in Yorkshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1679 and 1715
Myton Hall, Myton-on-Swale