Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Parr to Samuel Rogers, 21 July 1820
‘Dear Sir,—Permit me to propose Thursday, he
third of August, for my having the honour to wait upon you, and this I am the
more anxious to do, because in all probability I shall never visit the capital
again. I know, from your connections and your taste, that you will bring
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together a proper
party. But you will excuse me for mentioning by name Mr. Whishaw and Richard Sharp. I want to shake hands with Jemmy Mackintosh once before I die. Surely
Lord Holland will join our party.
‘I am, very truly and respectfully, dear Sir, yours,
‘July 21 (1820).’
Henry Richard Fox, third baron Holland (1773-1840)
Whig politician and literary patron; Holland House was for many years the meeting place
for reform-minded politicians and writers. He also published translations from the Spanish
and Italian;
Memoirs of the Whig Party was published in 1852.
Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)
Scottish philosopher and man of letters who defended the French Revolution in
Vindiciae Gallicae (1791); he was Recorder of Bombay (1803-1812) and
MP for Knaresborough (1819-32).
Samuel Parr (1747-1825)
English schoolmaster, scholar, and book collector whose strident politics and assertive
personality involved him in a long series of quarrels.
Richard Sharp [Conversation Sharp] (1759-1835)
English merchant, Whig MP, and member of the Holland House set; he published
Letters and Essays in Poetry and Prose (1834).
John Whishaw (1764 c.-1840)
Barrister, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; he was Secretary to the African
Association and biographer of Mungo Park. His correspondence was published as
The “Pope” of Holland House in 1906.
