Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Edward Quillinan to Samuel Rogers, 23 April 1850
‘Loughrigg Holme, Rydal: 23rd April, 1850.
‘My dear Mr.
Rogers,—You would be prepared from my last note for the
melancholy communication I have now to make. My dear father expired at 12
o’clock this day. He passed away calmly, and almost imperceptibly to
those around him.
‘Believe me, my dear Sir, yours always faithfully,
Edward Quillinan (1791-1851)
A poet of Irish Catholic descent who pursued a military career while issuing several
volumes published by his father-in-law Edgerton Brydges; after the death of his first wife
Jemima he married Dora Wordsworth in 1841.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).