Richard Glover

(1712-1785)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Glover, Richard, 1712-1785 DNB: Glover, Richard (1712-1785), writer and politician LBT ID: RiGlove1785 VIAF ID: 7400223 LOC ID: n82048656	B/BAP: 1712 DIED: 1785-11-25
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Poet and opposition writer, MP for Weymouth (1761-85); he published the heroic poem Leonidas (1737).
REFERENCES TO Richard Glover: Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 13 November 1793 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 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 XIII. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 27 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “The Reader. Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Tatler 1 (4 September 1830) 3-4 Found 1: ¶ 11 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. I. 1791-93