Classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge (1792); he edited four plays of Euripides.

REFERENCES TO Richard Porson:

Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [3 November 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 26 October 1808 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 13 August 1811 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 10 January 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to George Dyer, 22 February 1831 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Pierce Egan to Cyrus Redding, 12 April [1832] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858)