Sir Charles Abraham Elton, sixth baronet

(1778-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elton, Charles Abraham, Sir, 1778-1853 DNB: Elton, Sir Charles Abraham, sixth baronet (1778-1853), poet and theologian LBT ID: ChElton1853 VIAF ID: 20535975 LOC ID: n87804358	B/BAP: 1778-10-31 DIED: 1853-06-01
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
English poet and translator who contributed to the Edinburgh Review and London Magazine. He was an acquaintance of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was related by marriage to Henry Hallam.
REFERENCES TO Sir Charles Abraham Elton, sixth baronet: Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 14 March 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 22 April 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [2 July 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XV. 1809 Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1821 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Letters: 1824 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 9