John Sheffield, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby

(1647-1721)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 21 NRA: Sheffield John (1648-1721) 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby DNB: Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721), politician and author LBT ID: DuBucki1721 VIAF ID: 7818454 LOC ID: n50056207	B/BAP: 1647-09-08 DIED: 1721-02-24
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The patron of Dryden and friend of Pope; author of An Essay upon Poetry (1682).
REFERENCES TO John Sheffield, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby: Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 54 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 16 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 1: ¶ 37