NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rickman, John, 1771-1840 NRA: Rickman John (1771-1840) Statistician DNB: Rickman, John (1771-1840), statistician and civil servant LBT ID: JoRickm1840 VIAF ID: 56169311 LOC ID: no89020915 | B/BAP: 1771-08-22 DIED: 1840-08-11 |
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (April 1841) 431-37; DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
Educated at Magdalen Hall and Lincoln College, Oxford, he was statistician and clerk to
the House of Commons and an early friend of Charles Lamb and Robert Southey. | |