William Vincent

(1739-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Vincent, William, 1739-1815 DNB: Vincent, William (1739-1815), dean of Westminster and classical scholar LBT ID: WiVince1815 VIAF ID: 88072523 LOC ID: n85067475	B/BAP: 1739-11-02 DIED: 1815-12-21
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Educated at Westminster and Trinity College, he was headmaster of Westminster School (1788); his A Defence of Public Education (1801) ran to three editions. He was Dean of Westminster (1803-15).
REFERENCES TO William Vincent: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 1 December 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 May 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 9 April 1819 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 29 August 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 16 March 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter IV Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 12 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Robert Southey to John Wood Warter, 12 November 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XVI Early Life: XVII Ch. I. 1791-93 Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Ch. XIII. 1807 Ch. XXIV. 1818-1819 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. XXXVI. 1834-1836 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 44