John Betham

(1787 c.-1835)

LBT ID: JoBetha1835	B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1835-01-23
SOURCES: Unitarian Magazine and Chronicle 2 (1835) 351-52; Gentleman's Magazine (December 1839) 656; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983)
The son of the Rev. William Betham (1749-1839); in Madras he was a port official and police magistrate with the East India Company and was twice married.
REFERENCES TO John Betham: Mary Lamb to Barbara [Betham] Edwards, 2 November 1814 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb to Thomas Holcroft, Jr., [Autumn 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1819