Leapor was a working-class poet who often shirked her duties as a maid to write poetry, largely in the style of Pope. "She was said by her father to have begun writing verse at about ten or eleven years old, a habit her parents tried unsuccessfully to discourage" (DNB). Her friend Bridget Freemantle suggested a subscription edition of Leapor's unpublished verse and tried to interest the London stage in a tragedy she had composed, but Leapor died from measles before these plans could come to fruition.

Lauder seems to have been a poor (in the monetary sense of the word, at least) scholar, and he held some teaching posts.

Lampe was a composer and bassoonist who wrote songs, original ballads, a pantomine, and he arranged music for other poets and playwrights, including Carey's Amelia, Thomas Lediard's masque-like Britannia, John Gay's Dione, and Henry Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies. He worked primarily in a satirical and comical vein for various theatres in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh.

Isolated in the English countryside after her scandalous affair, she wrote many letters, especially to her friend William Shenstone, the duchess of Somerset, and her half-brother Bolingbroke. She and her friends formed the ‘Warwickshire coterie’; she was known in their literary circle as Asteria. She lived on £500 a year and created a ferme ornée. From about 1750 she was in severe financial difficulties. Her poetry was published in Dodsley's Collection (1775), passed along to Dodsley by Shenstone.

Little is known about Kirkpatrick, but as a young man he sailed to America and practised in Charlestown, South Carolina before later returning to Britain in the early 1740s. A physician, he was a respected authority on inoculation and engaged in a number of pamphlet debates (most notably with Dr. Thomas Dale) in his characteristic long-winded style. He had literary aspirations that didn't seem to come to much; he published "a volume of extremely bad poetry" (with his usual long preface and dedication) written during his original voyage to America.

Supported by a modest patrimony, King devoted himself to scholarship, literature, and politics. He was embroiled in a lawsuit for a number of years that cost him a lot of money in legal fees. He wrote a lot of Latin poetry, some of which he translated in English himself. Much of his prose and poetic works were political satires, some in Latin verse, for the Tory/Jacobite cause before he became increasingly disillusioned with the Stuart cause in 1761. He was a good friend of J. Swift before a fallout. He had a solid reputation for oratory and writing.

Kimber seems to have successfully made writing his primary career, though SJ writes that he died ‘a victim, in the Meridian of his Life, to his indefatigable Toils in the Republic of Letters’ . He was editor of London Magazine, to which he contributed poems and travel writing. He also wrote novels which garnered considerable success. Much of his work, however, was published anonymously or pseudonymously.

Ker was a Scots Latin poet and academic who wrote Latin memorial verses, including some on the death of Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713) and Latin lyricist Sir William Scott of Thirlestane (1624?–1725). He was instrumental in reviving exact Latin scholarship in Scotland.

While a master of the blue coat, or charity, school of Totnes, he attracted notice by some short poems, particularly ‘On the Recovery of the Hon. Mrs. Eliz. Courtenay from her Late Dangerous Illness’, printed in 1743 and 1747. He benefited from Whig patronage. He was a typical clergyman with a number of preferments, but was also a successful biblical scholar. Kennicott's scholarly endeavours attracted support in Britain and beyond. In England subscriptions amounted to £9119 7s. 6d.; he also had a high number of ranking patrons who supported him financially.

Kelsall was often impoverished and seemed to bounce around from job to job in the teaching or industrial sectors. A Quaker, he lived in the Dolobran meeting-house 1713 but suffered financial difficulties as a result of lowered enrollment and he was forced to sell his stock and equipment. His poor health compounded his fall into poverty. He wrote prolifically in diaries, had a sizeable correspondence, and compiled two volumes of unpublished poetry.