Thomas Medwin

(1788-1869)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869 NRA: Medwin Thomas (1788-1869) Biographer of PB Shelley DNB: Medwin, Thomas (1788-1869), writer and biographer LBT ID: ThMedwi1869 VIAF ID: 5271850 LOC ID: n50009957	B/BAP: 1788-03-20 DIED: 1869-08-02
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Lieutenant of dragoons who was with Byron and Shelley at Pisa; the author of Conversations of Lord Byron (1824) and The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (1847).
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in The Sun (30 November 1824) “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283 The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847)