John Charles Tarver

(1790-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tarver, J. C. (John Charles), 1790-1851 DNB: Tarver, John Charles (1790–1851), lexicographer LBT ID: JoTarve1851 VIAF ID: 89478215 LOC ID: nb2010030333	B/BAP: 1790-03-27 DIED: 1851-04-16
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Raised in France, he was French tutor to the Duke of Cambridge and from 1826 was French master at Eton; he published dictionaries and textbooks. In 1819 he married Mary Cristall, a relation of the writer Ann Batten Cristall.
REFERENCES TO John Charles Tarver: 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 X Found 1: ¶ 38 Chapter VII Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 9