Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, first baronet

(1762-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brydges, Samuel Egerton, Sir bart., 1762-1837 NRA: Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837), 1st Baronet, MP, bibliographer and genealogist DNB: Brydges, Sir (Samuel) Egerton, first baronet, styled thirteenth Baron Chandos (1762-1837), writer and genealogist LBT ID: SaBrydg1837 VIAF ID: 27405359 LOC ID: n79063789	B/BAP: 1762-11-30 DIED: 1837-09-08
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English antiquary, poet, novelist, and critic; the founder of the Lee Priory Press and editor of Censura Literaria and other bibliographic periodicals. He published An Impartial Portrait of Lord Byron (1824).
REFERENCES TO Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, first baronet: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's character and writings Found 1: ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 17 (February 1825) 131-51 Found 5: ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 71 ¶ 82 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 90 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ 9 Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844, “Notices of the Life of Lord Byron by Mr. Moore, and Remarks on those Notices by Lady Byron” in New Monthly Magazine 28 (March 1830) 94-95 Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 1: ¶ 39 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 129 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 6