Gibbons was a highly influential Independent minister and prolific sermon writer. He published a volume of his poetry; many of his poems are occasional elegies or hymns. His style shows the influence of Isaac Watts.

George was a clergyman and controversial headmaster of Eton. He was admired as a decent classical scholar and Latin poet. His poems are in two Latin collections.

Gent was a printer from humble origins. In his youth, he worked for numerous printers in London and Dublin before settling down in his own shop in Fleet Street, where he printed popular ballads, topical pieces, and his own original verse compositions. He moved to York, where he printed a wide range of works, most notably own topographical works and histories. His York printing business failed, however, in 1740 due to competition, and he spent the last twenty years of his life struggling against poverty and living as a beneficiary of Allen's charity.

Gay was a poet/playwright and member of the Scriblerus Club. He had a rocky start, but his Poems on Several Occasions gained him a considerable amount wealth, which he invested and augmented. However, he lost much in the South Sea crash; thanks to Pope's intervention, Gay managed to secure over £400 for his original investment of £1000. Gay is an interesting case of an "uneducated," "working-class" man becoming a successful (though struggling) writer.

A clergyman, Gardiner received preferments in 1704 from his father, the bishop of Lincoln, which he held until his death. He published a few sermons, as well as poems in the Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany and an English translation of 'Rapin of gardens'.

Gambold was a beloved Moravian minister and bishop. In his youth, he was a hypochondriac, melancholic recluse, though always conscientious about his clerical duties. He purportedly found solice in the Moravian church. Together with James Hutton, he became the chief translator and editor of a series of literary defences of the Moravian church in England against attacks during the 1750s, though he remained anonymous. He also employed his editorial skills as a proofreader and editor for William Bowyer, the publisher. As a Moravian, Gambold had embraced poverty.

Gahagan's early conversion to Catholicism barred him from becoming a lawyer and prompted his parents to disown him. He married a wealthy heiress, but his cruel treatment of her led to their separation. With accumulating debts, he moved to London hoping to make a living writing, acting as an editor and translating some of Pope's works into Latin. He was sentenced to execution for illegal coining. He wrote verses addressed to the duke of Newcastle and Prince George in the hopes of obtaining a pardon, but in vain.

There's a lot to be said about Thomas: she had one foot in the world of genteel woman's MS writing, and, because she was a "lady"/gentlewoman with essentially no money, another foot in the Curll world of London bookselling.

Theobald is historically important as the founder of English textual criticism, emphasizing the actual Shakespearean text as Rowe and Pope had not. His career illustrates the precariousness of life as a professional man of letters--LT earned 1100 guineas from the Shakespeare edition he did for Tonson, but was often out of money both before and after this.

As DNB points out, RT's poetry is most notable for its participation in and comment on the Stephen Duck phenomenon of 1730s working class poetry. Biographical info is almost completely lacking. The gambit of dedicating the second volume to the reader is an interesting one.