Edward Atkyns Bray

(1778-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bray, Edward Atkyns, 1778-1857 DNB: Bray, Edward Atkyns (1778–1857), poet and writer LBT ID: EdBray1857 VIAF ID: 48390502 LOC ID: n90670819	B/BAP: 1778-12-18 DIED: 1857-07-16
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English poet; educated at the Middle Temple, he worked as a barrister before taking orders as vicar of Tavistock and a divinity degree from Trinity College; his Remains were published by his wife, the novelist Anna Eliza Bray, whom he married in 1822.
REFERENCES TO Edward Atkyns Bray: Robert Southey to Katharine Southey, 1 January 1837 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXVII. 1836-1837 Found 1: ¶ 13