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	A four-volume set of indexes was compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the [[British Museum]]) with some assistance or later editing by John Nichols and by Gabriel Richard. The contents of these indexes are given as:<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/JournalRan5?p=50\|title=Browse library - MHD Digital Library\|website=www.midlandshistoricaldata.org}}</ref>		A four-volume set of indexes was compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the [[British Museum]]) with some assistance or later editing by John Nichols and by Gabriel Richard. The contents of these indexes are given as:<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/JournalRan5?p=50\|title=Browse library - MHD Digital Library\|website=www.midlandshistoricaldata.org}}</ref>

	*Volume 1 – ~~1731 – 1786~~ (published by Samuel Ayscough)<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Ayscough \|first1=Samuel \|title=General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine \|date=1789 \|publisher=Nichols \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cD9OAAAAcAAJ \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=The Gentleman's Magazine: Indexes to the poetical articles, the names of persons, the plates, and to the books and pamphlets \|date=1789 \|publisher=J. Nicholas \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNcxAQAAMAAJ \|access-date=2 February 2022 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2 \|date=1789 \|publisher=E. Cave \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VmXPAAAAMAAJ \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=General Index to Fifty-six Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine: Indexes to the names of persons, the books and pamphlets, the poetical articles, and to the plates \|date=1818 \|publisher=Nichols, Son, and Bentley ... and sold by J. Harris \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OITAAAAYAAJ \|language=en}}</ref>		*Volume 1 – 1731–1786 (published by Samuel Ayscough)<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Ayscough \|first1=Samuel \|title=General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine \|date=1789 \|publisher=Nichols \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cD9OAAAAcAAJ \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=The Gentleman's Magazine: Indexes to the poetical articles, the names of persons, the plates, and to the books and pamphlets \|date=1789 \|publisher=J. Nicholas \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNcxAQAAMAAJ \|access-date=2 February 2022 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2 \|date=1789 \|publisher=E. Cave \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VmXPAAAAMAAJ \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=General Index to Fifty-six Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine: Indexes to the names of persons, the books and pamphlets, the poetical articles, and to the plates \|date=1818 \|publisher=Nichols, Son, and Bentley ... and sold by J. Harris \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OITAAAAYAAJ \|language=en}}</ref>
	**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (494 pp.)		**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (494 pp.)
	**Index to poetry (62 pp.)		**Index to poetry (62 pp.)
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	**Index to plates (10 pp.)		**Index to plates (10 pp.)
	**Index to books (118 pp.)		**Index to books (118 pp.)
	*Volume 2 – ~~1787 – 1818~~ (published by John Nichols)<ref>{{cite book \|title=General Index Volume 2; The Gentleman's Magazine, Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer \|date=1818 \|publisher=R. Newton \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWPEBJfMdA0C \|language=en}}</ref>		*Volume 2 – 1787–1818 (published by John Nichols)<ref>{{cite book \|title=General Index Volume 2; The Gentleman's Magazine, Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer \|date=1818 \|publisher=R. Newton \|via=[[google books]] \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWPEBJfMdA0C \|language=en}}</ref>
	**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (486 pp.)		**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (486 pp.)
	**Index to poetry (57 pp.)		**Index to poetry (57 pp.)
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	**Index to books announced (13 pp.)		**Index to books announced (13 pp.)
	**Index to musical publications (3 pp.)		**Index to musical publications (3 pp.)
	*Volume 3 – ~~1731 – 1818~~ (published by John Nichols)		*Volume 3 – 1731–1818 (published by John Nichols)
	**Index to plates (239 pp.)		**Index to plates (239 pp.)
	*Volume 4 – ~~1731 – 1780~~ (published by the British Record Society)		*Volume 4 – 1731–1780 (published by the British Record Society)
	**Index to names and surnames (687 pp.)		**Index to names and surnames (687 pp.)

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	* [[Mark Akenside]] (1721–1770), physician and poet		* [[Mark Akenside]] (1721–1770), physician and poet
	* [[Henry Aldrich]] (1647–1710), English [[theologian]] and [[philosopher]]		* [[Henry Aldrich]] (1647–1710), English [[theologian]] and [[philosopher]]
	* [[Richard Allestree]] or Allestry (1619–1681), [[Royalist]] churchman and [[Provost (education)\|provost]] of [[Eton College]] from 1665		* [[Richard Allestree]] or Allestry (1619–1681), [[Cavalier\|Royalist]] churchman and [[Provost (education)\|provost]] of [[Eton College]] from 1665
	* [[Anthony Alsop]] (d. 1726), [[Church of England]] clergyman and poetical writer		* [[Anthony Alsop]] (d. 1726), [[Church of England]] clergyman and poetical writer
	* [[George Ashby (antiquary)\|George Ashby]] (1724–1808), English learned [[antiquary]] and sometime president of [[St. John's College, Cambridge]]		* [[George Ashby (antiquary)\|George Ashby]] (1724–1808), English learned [[antiquary]] and sometime president of [[St. John's College, Cambridge]]

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[[File:The Gentleman's Magazine, May 1759.jpg|thumb|Front page of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', May 1759]]

'''''The Gentleman's Magazine''''' was a monthly magazine<ref>{{cite web |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=gentlemans |title=The Online Books Pagepresents serial archive listings for The Gentleman's Magazine |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu |editor=John Mark Ockerbloom |editor-link=John Mark Ockerbloom |access-date=20 May 2012 }}</ref> founded in [[London]], England, by [[Edward Cave]] in January 1731.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Heather A. Haveman|title=Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines|journal=Poetics|volume=32|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222571293|access-date=20 November 2015}}</ref> It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1907, ceasing publication altogether in 1922. It was the first to use the term ''[[magazine]]'' (from the [[French language|French]] ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a [[periodical]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Samuel|title=Magazine|url=http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?p=5695|work=A Dictionary of the English Language|publisher=JohnsonsDictionaryOnline.com|access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> [[Samuel Johnson]]'s first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''.

==History==
The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer''. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to [[Latin poetry]]. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the [[pen name]] "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term ''[[magazine]]'' (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Contributions to the magazine frequently took the form of letters, addressed to "Mr. Urban". The iconic illustration of [[St John's Gate, Clerkenwell|St John's Gate]], [[Clerkenwell]], on the front of each issue (occasionally updated over the years) depicted Cave's home, in effect, the magazine's "office".

Before the founding of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', there were specialised journals, but no such wide-ranging publications (although there had been attempts, such as ''The Gentleman's Journal'', which was edited by [[Peter Anthony Motteux|Peter Motteux]] and ran from 1692 to 1694).

[[Samuel Johnson]]'s first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. During a time when parliamentary reporting was banned, Johnson regularly contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia". Though they reflected the positions of the participants, the words of the debates were mostly Johnson's own. The name "[[Columbia (name)|Columbia]]", a poetic name for America coined by Johnson, first appears in a 1738 weekly publication of the debates of the British Parliament in the magazine.<ref>[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=5&size=1&id=gm.1738.6.x.8.x.x.285a ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Vol. 8, June 1738, p. 285] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120909014311/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=5&size=1&id=gm.1738.6.x.8.x.x.285a |date=9 September 2012 }} Retrieved 2009-08-22</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_DoJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR13 ''Debates in Parliament'', Samuel Johnson.] Retrieved 2009-08-22</ref>

The magazine's long-running motto, ''[[E pluribus unum]]'', Latin for "Out of many, one", is thought to have inspired the use of the phrase as an unofficial motto of the United States. Motteux's ''The Gentleman's Journal'' had previously used the phrase.<ref name="statepub">{{cite web |url = https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/27807.pdf |title = The Great Seal of the United States |publisher = [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]] |author = Bureau of Public Affairs |access-date = February 3, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/229387/The-Gentlemans-Magazine|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=[Title page] |journal=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle |volume=46 |year=1776 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXfPAAAAMAAJ |via=Google Books }}</ref>

A skilled businessman, Edward Cave developed an extensive distribution system for ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. It was read throughout the English-speaking world and continued to flourish through the 18th century and much of the 19th century under a series of different editors and publishers. It went into decline towards the end of the 19th century and finally ceased general publication in September 1907. However, issues consisting of four pages each were printed in very small editions between late 1907 and 1922 in order to keep the title formally "in print".

==Series==
[[File:Gentleman's Magazine Volume One, Number One.jpg|thumb|Top half of Volume One, Issue One, published January 1731]]
*1731–1735: ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' or ''Monthly Intelligencer''
*1736–1833: ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' and Historical Chronicle
*1834–1856 (June) New Series: ''The Gentleman's Magazine''
*1856 (July)–1868 (May) New Series: ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' and Historical Review
*1868 (June)–1922 Entirely New Series: ''The Gentleman's Magazine''

==Indexes==
In addition to an index for each year of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', which was usually published with the December issue of the magazine, a full index was compiled by the College of Arms and typed by the Genealogical Society of Utah.<ref>College of Arms, ''Gentleman's Magazine Index'', 75 vols. (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958–60; typescript)</ref> This 75-volume index, covering the years 1731–1850, gives the full name and an abbreviated reference to the date, event, and any other person(s) in each entry. The index is available at the Family History Library (FHL) under the call number 942 B2g Index,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/50365?availability=Family+History+Library|title= Gentleman's magazine index |website=FamilySearch Catalog |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722190646/https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/50365?availability=Family%20History%20Library |archive-date= Jul 22, 2021 }}</ref> and is also available on microfilm (#599738–#599761) or microfiche (#6026701). In addition to the index, the FHL also has the magazine itself available in various formats.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/46838?availability=Family%20History%20Library|title= The Gentleman's magazine|website=FamilySearch Catalog |language=en|access-date=2017-10-23 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200809042521/https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/46838?availability=Family%20History%20Library |archive-date= Aug 9, 2020 }}</ref>

An abstract of the "chief contents of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' from 1731 to 1868" was published by George L. Gomme<ref>George Laurence Gomme, ed. ''The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731–1868''. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1891</ref> in 1891. He describes it as "excerpts from the original publications containing local history and information, topographical details, and family history are presented here, organized into volumes by county". Gomme's work has been digitised and indexed by [[Ancestry.com]] and is available online to Ancestry subscribers or at subscribing libraries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gentleman's Magazine Library, 1731-1868 |url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/31424/ |access-date=May 25, 2025 |website=ancestry.com}}</ref>

A four-volume set of indexes was compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the [[British Museum]]) with some assistance or later editing by John Nichols and by Gabriel Richard. The contents of these indexes are given as:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/JournalRan5?p=50|title=Browse library - MHD Digital Library|website=www.midlandshistoricaldata.org}}</ref>

*Volume 1 – 1731 – 1786 (published by Samuel Ayscough)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ayscough |first1=Samuel |title=General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine |date=1789 |publisher=Nichols |via=[[google books]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cD9OAAAAcAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine: Indexes to the poetical articles, the names of persons, the plates, and to the books and pamphlets |date=1789 |publisher=J. Nicholas |via=[[google books]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNcxAQAAMAAJ |access-date=2 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2 |date=1789 |publisher=E. Cave |via=[[google books]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VmXPAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=General Index to Fifty-six Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine: Indexes to the names of persons, the books and pamphlets, the poetical articles, and to the plates |date=1818 |publisher=Nichols, Son, and Bentley ... and sold by J. Harris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OITAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref>
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (494 pp.)
**Index to poetry (62 pp.)
**Index to names (239 pp.)
**Index to plates (10 pp.)
**Index to books (118 pp.)
*Volume 2 – 1787 – 1818 (published by John Nichols)<ref>{{cite book |title=General Index Volume 2; The Gentleman's Magazine, Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer |date=1818 |publisher=R. Newton |via=[[google books]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWPEBJfMdA0C |language=en}}</ref>
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (486 pp.)
**Index to poetry (57 pp.)
**Index to names (519 pp.)
**Index to plates (17 pp.)
**Index to books (103 pp.)
**Index to books announced (13 pp.)
**Index to musical publications (3 pp.)
*Volume 3 – 1731 – 1818 (published by John Nichols)
**Index to plates (239 pp.)
*Volume 4 – 1731 – 1780 (published by the British Record Society)
**Index to names and surnames (687 pp.)

Volume 2 includes an "Index of Names to the Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, &c." covering 1731–1786, and volume 4 contains an "Index of Names of Persons" covering 1731–1818. The indexes are by surname only and are available online for free through Google Books:

*Ayscough, Samuel; Nichols, John. "General Index to the ''Gentleman's Magazine''" Nichols, 1789. Vol. 2. Free digital version at Google Books<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96RJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64|title=The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle|date=20 July 1789|publisher=E. Cave|via=Google Books}}</ref> (follow link to page 64, which is followed by the index, which is numbered as page 1). Indexes names from Vol. 1 "To the End of the LVIth Volume of the ''Gentleman's Magazine''" and covers 1731–1786.
*Ayscough, Samuel; Nichols, John. (sometimes Richard, Gabriel)  "General Index to the ''Gentleman's Magazine'' 1787–1818" Nichols, 1821. Vol. 3. Free digital version at Google Books<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3j9OAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA137|title=General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine|first=Samuel|last=Ayscough|date=20 July 1821|publisher=Nichols|via=Google Books}}</ref>

David Dobson gleaned references to American births, marriages, and deaths from ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' and published it as ''American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731–1868'' (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987).

A few partial indexes to genealogical events in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' are also available:

*Fry, Edward Alexander. "Index to the Marriages in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1731–1768" (London:[s.n.], 1922)
*Fry, Edward Alexander. "Index to the Biographical and Obituary Notices in ''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1731–1780" (London: British Records Society, 1891)
*Marriages from ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' for the years 1731 to 1768 were included in ''Boyd's Marriage Index''.<ref>Boyd, Percival comp., Boyd's Marriage Index, 555 volumes, (London: Society of Genealogists, 1938–1962)</ref>
*Obituaries were included in ''Musgrave's Obituaries''.<ref>Musgrave, William, comp., ''Musgrave's Obituaries'', 6 vols. (London, Harleian Society, 1900)</ref>
*Joseph Foster's index to marriages includes marriages from this periodical, as well as from ''The Times'' (1865–1880 only) and the Historical Register; but covers surname beginning Aa–Alexander only.<ref>"Marriages of the Nobility and Gentry, 1650–1880", an article in ''Collectanea Genealogica, 1881–1885''</ref>
*[[Bodleian Library]]'s Internet Library of Early Journals<ref name="wayback.archive-it.org 2019">{{cite web |title=Search Journals — Gentleman's Magazine |website=Internet Library of Early Journals |date=2019-10-02 |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/org-467/20191002090504/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ |access-date=2021-08-21}}</ref> offers an online subject search tool for the years 1731–1750.

==Authors of works published==

* [[Mark Akenside]] (1721–1770), physician and poet
* [[Henry Aldrich]] (1647–1710), English [[theologian]] and [[philosopher]]
* [[Richard Allestree]] or Allestry (1619–1681), [[Royalist]] churchman and [[Provost (education)|provost]] of [[Eton College]] from 1665
* [[Anthony Alsop]] (d. 1726), [[Church of England]] clergyman and poetical writer
* [[George Ashby (antiquary)|George Ashby]] (1724–1808), English learned [[antiquary]] and sometime president of [[St. John's College, Cambridge]]
* [[Francis Atterbury]] (1663–1732), English man of letters, politician, [[Bishop of Rochester]], and Dean of [[Westminster Abbey]]
* [[Samuel Badcock]] (1747–1788), English [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]] minister, theological writer and literary critic
* [[Henry Baker (naturalist)|Henry Baker]] (1698–1774)
* [[John Bancks]] (1709–1751), miscellaneous writer
* [[Mary Barber (poet)|Mary Barber]] (c. 1685–c. 1755), poet, mother of nine children, and a member of Swift's circle
* [[James Theodore Bent]] (1852-1897), celebrity explorer
* [[Samuel Bowden (poet)|Samuel Bowden]] (fl. 1733–1761), English physician and poet (alive in 1761 but deceased by 1778)
* [[John Bowle (writer)|John Bowle]] (1725–1788), [[Church of England]] clergyman known as a writer on Spanish literature
* [[Samuel Boyse]] (1708–1749), Irish poet
* [[Peregrine Branwhite]] (1745–1795?), English poet
* [[Anna Eliza Bray]] (1790–1883), British novelist
* [[James Norris Brewer]] (fl. 1799–1829), English [[topographer]] and [[novelist]]
* [[James Shudi Broadwood]] (1772–1851), [[piano]] maker in [[Middlesex]] and a [[magistrate]] in [[Surrey]]
* Rev. [[Moses Browne]] (1704–1787), [[Church of England]] priest and poet
* [[Edward John Carlos]] (1798–1851), English antiquarian and writer on architecture
* [[Thomas Christie]] (1761–1796), radical political writer
* [[Charles Clarke (antiquary)]] (died 1840), antiquarian
* Rev. [[John Darwall]] (1731–1789), [[Church of England]] [[clergyman]] and [[hymnodist]]
* [[William Hepworth Dixon]] (1821–1879), English traveler, historian, author
* Rev. [[John Duncombe (writer)|John Duncombe]] (1729–1786)
* Rev. [[William Dunkin]], D.D. (1709?–1765), Irish poet and Anglican clergyman
* [[William Falconer (poet)|William Falconer]] (1732–1769), Scottish poet
* [[Thomas Faulkner (topographer)|Thomas Faulkner]] (1777–1855), topographer of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington etc.
* [[Bertram Fletcher Robinson]] (1870-1907), sportsman, editor, journalist and author.
* [[James Frederic Ferguson]] (1807–1855), Irish [[antiquary]] born in [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], South Carolina
* [[Thomas Fisher (antiquary)|Thomas Fisher]] (1772–1826)
* Rev. [[George Glasse]] (1761–1809), chaplain and a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]
* Sir [[Andrew Halliday (physician)|Andrew Halliday]] (1782–1839), Scottish physician, reformer, and writer
* Sir [[John Hawkins (author)|John Hawkins]] (1719–1789), English author and friend of [[Samuel Johnson]] and [[Horace Walpole]]
* Rev. [[William Hawkins (clergyman)|William Hawkins]] (1722–1801), English clergyman, poet, and dramatist
* [[Susanna Highmore]] (1690–1750), minor British poet
* [[Samuel Johnson]] (1709–1784)
* [[Andrew Kippis]] (1725–1795), English [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]] [[clergyman]] and [[biographer]]
* Rev. [[John Langhorne (poet)|John Langhorne]] (1735–1779), [[Church of England]] clergyman, poet and co-translator of [[Plutarch]]'s ''[[Parallel Lives|Lives]]''
* [[William Lauder (forger)|William Lauder]] (c. 1680–1771), Scottish literary forger; article on [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' was largely a [[plagiarism]] of earlier works
* Sir [[Sidney Lee]] (1859–1926)
* [[John Lockman (author)|John Lockman]] (1698–1771), English author
* [[Michael Lort]] (1725–1790), Welsh clergyman, academic, and [[antiquary]]
* [[William Markham (bishop)|William Markham]] (1719–1807), English divine and archbishop of York
* [[Arthur Murphy (writer)|Arthur Murphy]] (1727–1805), [[Irish people|Irish]] writer
* [[Laetitia Pilkington]] ({{circa|1709}} to 1750), [[Dublin]]-born author and friend of [[Jonathan Swift]]
* Robert Riccaltoun (1691–1769), Scottish Presbyterian divine and friend of poet [[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]] (1700–1748)
* [[William Roscoe]] (1753–1831), English historian and miscellaneous writer; poetry by him first appeared in the magazine in 1807
* [[Richard Savage (poet)|Richard Savage]] (c. 1697–1743), English poet
* [[George Stephens (philologist)|George Stephens]] (1813–1895), English [[archeologist]] and [[philologist]] who worked in Scandinavia
* [[Jonathan Swift]] (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became [[Dean (Christianity)|Dean]] of [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St. Patrick's Cathedral]], Dublin
* Captain [[Philip Thicknesse]] (1719–1792)
* [[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]] (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright best known for his masterpiece ''[[The Seasons (Thomson poem)|The Seasons]]'' and the lyrics of "[[Rule, Britannia!]]"
* [[Nigel Tourneur]] (18??–18??), pseudonym of a [[fin de siècle]] writer known for one work only—''Hidden Witchery'', a collection of seven short stories and a short prose drama
* [[Thomas Tyrwhitt]] (1730–1786), English [[classical scholar]] and [[critic]]
* [[Michael Tyson (antiquary)]] (1740–1780), [[Church of England]] clergyman, academic, antiquary and artist
* [[Richard Weston (botanist)]] (1733–1806)
* [[Charles Woodmason]] (c. 1720–1789), English-born American poet
* [[Edward Young]] (1681–1765), English poet, best remembered for ''[[Night-Thoughts]]''

==Associated artists, painters, topographers==

* [[James Norris Brewer]] (fl. 1799–1829) English [[topographer]] and [[novelist]]
* [[Thomas Faulkner (topographer)|Thomas Faulkner]] (1775–1855), topographer
* [[John Gibson (cartographer)|John Gibson]] (1750–1792), cartographer
* [[Moses Griffith (engraver)|Moses Griffith]] (1749–1819), Welsh draughtsman, engraver, and water colourist
* [[William George Moss]], chief illustrator {{circa|1819}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
* [[Bartholomew Howlett]] (1767–1827), English draughtsman and engraver
* [[Samuel Rawle]] (1771–1860), English topographical engraver and draughtsman

==See also==
* [[History of journalism]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Bond, Donald. "Review: The Gentleman's Magazine" ''Modern Philology'' (1940) 38#1 pp. 85–100 {{closed access}} [https://www.jstor.org/stable/433984 in JSTOR.]
* Carlson, C. Lennart. ''The First Magazine. A History of the Gentleman's Magazine, with an Account of Dr. Johnson's Editorial Activity and of the Notice Given America in the Magazine'' (Brown University Press, 1938), 281pp
*{{cite book|first=James M. |last=Kuist |title=The Nichols File of the ''Gentleman's Magazine'': Attributions of Authorship and Other Documentation in Editorial Papers at the [[Folger Library]]|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] (Madison, Wis.)|year=1982|isbn=0-299-08480-9}}
*Two supplements to Kuist were originally published in Vols. 44, 45, 46, 47, and 49 of [http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/ Studies in Bibliography], The Bibliographical Society of the [[University of Virginia]]
**{{cite web|first=Emily Lorraine|last=de Montluzin|year=1996|title=Attributions of Authorship ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', 1731–1868 A supplement to Kuist|url=http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm/gm1.html}}
**{{cite web|first=Emily Lorraine|last=de Montluzin|year=1997|title=Attributions of Authorship in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', 1731–1868: A Synthesis of Finds Appearing Neither in Kuist's Nichols File nor in de Montluzin's Supplement to Kuist|url=http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm/gm2.html}}
*{{cite web|first=Emily Lorraine|last=de Montluzin|title=Attributions of Authorship in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (Kuist's ''Nichols File'' and Its Conversion into an Electronic Database)|url=http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm/gm3.html}}

==See also==
*''[[The Gentlewoman]]''

==External links==
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*{{cite web |url=http://benjaminpauley.net/c18booktracker/node/63 |title=''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (1731–1833) |publisher=Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker |access-date=10 January 2016 }}
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%22The%20Gentleman%27s%20Magazine%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ''The Gentleman's Magazine''], archives at [[Internet Archive]].
*[https://books.google.com/books?q=editions%3AHARVARDHW292P&as_brr=1 ''The Gentleman's Magazine''], archives at [[Google Books]].
*[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402124314/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ |date=2 April 2022 }} including ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', vols 1–20 (1731–50) ([http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/journals/srchgm.htm on-line text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903205452/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/journals/srchgm.htm |date=3 September 2018 }})
*''A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine'', John Walker, [[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown]], 1814 [https://archive.org/details/lifesamueljohns03malogoog/page/n114 ]
*{{cite web |url=http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/gm/ |title=An Electronic Version of James M. Kuist's The Nichols File of the ''Gentleman's Magazine'' |publisher=Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library|date=21 April 2008 }}

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