Pupils who later distinguished themselves include Lord Chief Justice Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, scholar and translator William Taylor, settler of early Canada Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, and archaeologist Sir William Gell.https://archive.org/stream/worksofannlaetit01barbuoft/worksofannlaetit01barbuoft_djvu.txt Memoir of Mrs Barbauld by Lucy Aikin Barbauld had a profound effect on many of her students; Taylor, a preeminent scholar of German literature, referred to her as "the mother of my mind".Qtd. in Rodgers, 75.
