LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846 NRA: Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846) Diplomat and Author DNB: Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846), diplomatist and author LBT ID: JoFrere1846 VIAF ID: 1141974 LOC ID: n83180262 | B/BAP: 1769-05-21 DIED: 1846-01-07 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; thepeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
English diplomat and poet; educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was envoy to Lisbon
(1800-02) and Madrid (1802-04, 1808-09); with Canning conducted the The
Anti-Jacobin (1797-98); author of Prospectus and Specimen of an
intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft (1817, 1818). | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY John Hookham Frere:
A Metrical Version of The Acharnians, The Knights and The Birds, in the last
of which a vein of peculiar Humour and Character is for the first time detected and
developed. Found 1.
Display Records “An Ode on Athelstan's Victory” in Specimens of the early English Poets: to which is prefixed an Historical
Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language. Found 3.
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Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert
Whistlecraft. Found 37.
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Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work. By William and Robert
Whistlecraft, of Stow-Market, in Suffolk, Harness, and Collar-Makers. Intended to Comprise
the most interesting Particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table. Cantos III.
and IV. Found 6.
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