John Britton

(1771-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Britton, John, 1771-1857 NRA: Britton, John (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer DNB: Britton, John (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer LBT ID: JoBritt1857 VIAF ID: 15044364 LOC ID: n86006785	B/BAP: 1771-07-07 DIED: 1857-01-01
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English autodidact, antiquary, and topographer; he published Beauties of Wiltshire (1801) and Autobiography, 2 vols (1850, 1857).
REFERENCES TO John Britton: Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 10 February 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXII. 1829 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 4: Amusements Found 1: ¶ 25 Ch. 2: Personal Notes Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 3: Fresh Start Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ 2 The Literary Fund Found 1: ¶ 4 Geographical Society Found 1: ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 64 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 25 Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XXII Found 2: ¶ 32 ¶ n1 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Preface Found 1: ¶ n2