Gilbert Pidcock

(1743 c.-1810)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pidcock, Gilbert DNB: Pidcock, Gilbert (d. 1810), menagerist and showman LBT ID: GiPidco1810 VIAF ID: 78655622 LOC ID: nr93044688	B/BAP: 1743 DIED: 1810-01-25
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (February 1810) 184; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Showman and menagerie-keeper at the Exeter ’Change in London—his lions were grand attractions.
REFERENCES TO Gilbert Pidcock: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [26 January? 1819] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [11 October 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 40 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 53 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 2: ¶ 67 ¶ 119 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1819 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 2