John Liston

(1776 c.-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Liston, John, 1776-1846 DNB: Liston, John (c.1776-1846), actor LBT ID: JoListo1846 VIAF ID: 3915614 LOC ID: n85208063	B/BAP: 1776 DIED: 1846-03-22
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English comic actor who performed at the Haymarket and Covent Garden.
REFERENCES TO John Liston: Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [30 March 1810] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 29 January 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Extraordinary Case of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (11 May 1817) 236-37 Found 1: ¶ 23 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 26 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 18 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 22 October 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 11 June 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 10 February 1825 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [9 September 1826] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Mathews. Found 1: ¶ 8 Mr. Charles Lamb. Found 1: ¶ 2 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 147 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1812 Life of Byron: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 24 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 2 Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, [March 1832] in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter VIII 1819 Chapter IV 1821 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IV” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (June 1847) 137-43 Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 2: Childhood Found 1: ¶ 13 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) William Hazlitt VI Found 1: ¶ 10 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) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 9 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1812 Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 29 Ch. X 1824 Found 1: ¶ 41 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 7 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 37 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXI. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1825 Letters: 1826 Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) SIR LUMLEY SKEFFINGTON Found 1: ¶ 14