John Symonds

(1728-1807)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Symonds, John, 1729-1807 NRA: Symonds John (1730-1807) Historian DNB: Symonds, John (bap. 1730, d. 1807), historian LBT ID: JoSymon1807 VIAF ID: 90735495 LOC ID: no90010227	B/BAP: 1728-02-10 DIED: 1807-02-18
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Educated at St John's College, he succeeded Thomas Gray as regius professor of modern history at Cambridge in 1771.
REFERENCES TO John Symonds: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 94