Thomas Busby

(1754-1838)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Busby, Thomas, 1754-1838 DNB: Busby, Thomas (1754-1838), composer and author LBT ID: ThBusby1838 VIAF ID: 59432215 LOC ID: n82209496	B/BAP: 1754-12-26 DIED: 1838-05-28
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English composer and miscellaneous writer; his translation of Lucretius's De rerum natura (1813) attracted ridicule.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Busby: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 4 August 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 18 October 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, 22 October 1812 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 October 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1812 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 7 Life of Byron: 1814 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 49 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 48 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) The Satirist. Verse 2: p. 324a p. 324a Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1810-1812. Found 2: ¶ 38 ¶ n2