Richard Baxter

(1615-1691)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 NRA: Baxter Richard (1615-1691) Presbyterian DNB: Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), ejected minister and religious writer LBT ID: RiBaxte1691 VIAF ID: 54178741 LOC ID: n50005510	B/BAP: 1615-11-12 DIED: 1691-12-08
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Presbyterian divine and leader of the nonconformist church in England; he was a popular and voluminous writer. “The last words of Mr. Baxter,” referring to a dispute with his printer, became proverbial.
REFERENCES TO Richard Baxter: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 October 1802 [completed] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 4 November 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, July 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 30 April 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXI. Found 1: ¶ 28 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1806-08 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter IV 1818 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Vol. V Appendix Found 1: ¶ 2 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVII 1820 Found 1: ¶ 18 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Appendix II