William Conyngham Plunket, first baron Plunket

(1764-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Plunket, William Conyngham Plunket, Baron, 1764-1854 NRA: Plunket William Conyngham (1764-1854) 1st Baron Plunket Lord Chancellor of Ireland DNB: Plunket, William Conyngham, first Baron Plunket (1764-1854), lord chancellor of Ireland LBT ID: WiPlunk1854 VIAF ID: 15514978 LOC ID: n86100717	B/BAP: 1764-07-01 DIED: 1854-01-04
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Irish lawyer and MP who supported Catholic emancipation; he was appointed lord chancellor of Ireland (1830) by Lord Grey.
REFERENCES TO William Conyngham Plunket, first baron Plunket: Thomas Wallace to Sydeny Owenson, [January 1810?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 22 November 1819 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 25 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 30 March 1822 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n2 Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841, “Lord Byron and the late Rev. Charles Wolfe” in Morning Chronicle (29 October 1824) Found 1: ¶ 21 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 XX. 1820-1825 Found 1: ¶ 4 Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872, “Sketches of Contemporary Authors. Mr. Brougham” in The Athenaeum 1 (29 February 1828) 161-63 Found 1: ¶ 8 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 October 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 21 November 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Sydney Smith to Lady Morley, [July] 1831 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 19 August 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) 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 II 1825 Found 3: ¶ 13 ¶ 17 ¶ 30 Chapter IV 1825 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 25 ¶ n1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1831 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 33 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXII Chapter XXI Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 15 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1812 Found 1: ¶ 14 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1828-1830. Found 1: ¶ 13 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ n1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VII: 1828 Ch. XI: 1833 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VII: 1819 Chapter X: 1822 Found 1: ¶ n2