NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hill, Thomas, 1760-1840 NRA: Hill Thomas (1760-1840) Bibliophile Author and Journalist DNB: Hill, Thomas (1760-1840), book-collector LBT ID: ThHill1840 VIAF ID: 24163783 LOC ID: no91026085 | B/BAP: 1760-05 DIED: 1840-12-20 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English book-collector who entertained members of Leigh Hunt's circle at his cottage at
Sydenham in Kent. He was a proprietor of the Monthly Mirror and
later a writer for the Morning Chronicle. Charles Lamb described him
as “the wettest of dry salters.” | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Hill: Charles Lamb to Thomas Hill, [between 1809 and 1817] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) |