LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809 NRA: Porteus Beilby (1731-1808) Bishop of London DNB: Porteus, Beilby (1731-1809), bishop of London, born at York on 8 May 1731 LBT ID: BePorte1809 VIAF ID: 42188951 LOC ID: n85089750 | B/BAP: 1731-05-08 DIED: 1809-05-14 |
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English divine; his Cambridge prize-poem Death: a Poetical Essay
(1759) was frequently reprinted. He was bishop of Chester (1776-87) and bishop of London
(1787-1809). | |
REFERENCES TO Beilby Porteus, bishop of London: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 7 April 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lord Holland, [June 1808] 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:
¶ 8 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. IX. 1776-1777 Found 1:
¶ n1 Ch XVII. 1820-1824 Found 1:
¶ n1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1:
¶ 48 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1:
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