George Bancroft

(1800-1891)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 NRA: Bancroft, George (1800-1891), American historian and diplomat LBT ID: GeBancr1891 VIAF ID: 39386684 LOC ID: n50036519	B/BAP: 1800-10-03 DIED: 1891-01-17
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American historian, secretary of the navy, and minister to Great Britain (1846); he was author of History of the United States, 10 vols (1834-74).
REFERENCES TO George Bancroft: Lord Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1822 Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 14 September 1846 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Summer to Samuel Rogers, 5 October 1846 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 William H. Prescott to Samuel Rogers, 30 July 1849 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 George Bancroft to Samuel Rogers, 15 May 1850 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 3 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VI. 1845-46. Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter VII. 1847-50.