Francis Place

(1771-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Place, Francis, 1771-1854 NRA: Place Francis (1771-1854) Radical Reformer DNB: Place, Francis (1771-1854), radical and chronicler LBT ID: FrPlace1854 VIAF ID: 37020001 LOC ID: n50019737	B/BAP: 1771-11-03 DIED: 1854-01-02
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A prosperous London tailor and political radical associated with Burdett and Hobhouse; he wrote for the Westminster Review.
REFERENCES TO Francis Place: William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Henry Blanch Rosser to William Godwin, 9 January 1821 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 1: ¶ 20 [William Hazlitt], “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 Found 1: ¶ 6 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 42 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 6 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 3 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. X. 1819-1824