Richard Polwhele

(1760-1838)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Polwhele, Richard, 1760-1838 NRA: Polwhele Richard (1760-1838) Anglican Clergyman Topographer Theologian DNB: Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838), writer LBT ID: RiPolwh1838 VIAF ID: 20027960 LOC ID: n85067251	B/BAP: 1760-01-06 DIED: 1838-03-12
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Cornish clergyman, poet, antiquary, and correspondent of Walter Scott; he was author of The Influence of Local Attachment (1796) and satires on Jacobins and Methodists.
REFERENCES TO Richard Polwhele: Walter Scott to John Murray, 26 October [1810] in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 15 July 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) 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 XVII. 1820-1824 Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 13 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 17: Contributors Found 1: ¶ 9 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 42 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 87 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 19 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XII.