David Mallet

(1702 c.-1765)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mallet, David, 1705?-1765 NRA: Mallet David (?1705-1765) formerly Malloch Poet and Miscellaneous Writer DNB: Mallet [formerly Malloch], David (1701/2?-1765), poet LBT ID: DaMalle1765 VIAF ID: 59092312 LOC ID: n80017895	B/BAP: 1702 DIED: 1765-04-21
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Anglo-Scottish poet, playwright, and place-man, friend of James Thomson, author of the ballad “William and Margaret.”
REFERENCES TO David Mallet: Lord Byron to Lord Holland, 25 June 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1812 “Moore’s Life of Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine 101 (January 1831) 64-67 Found 1: ¶ 18 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1810-1812. Found 1: ¶ 11