Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury

(1643-1715)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715 NRA: Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury historian DNB: Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715), bishop of Salisbury and historian LBT ID: GiBurne1715 VIAF ID: 22151653 LOC ID: n50032699	B/BAP: 1643-09-18 DIED: 1715-03-17
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Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he was professor of divinity at Glasgow (1669); a supporter of William III, he was made bishop of Salisbury (1689). His History of his own Times was posthumously published (1723-34)
REFERENCES TO Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [1 March 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Herbert Hill, 31 December 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two more Letters: being the fourth and last (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 8 Terrot, Charles Hughes, 1790-1872, Common Sense: a Poem (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1819) Verse 2: p. 52a p. 52a 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 XXI. Found 2: ¶ 28 ¶ 29 Robert Southey to John Jebb, 6 March 1833 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 12 December 1838 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812 Ch. XXXV. 1832-1834 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XV William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) John Keats Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 2