Sir John Stoddart

(1773-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Stoddart, John, Sir, 1773-1856 NRA: Stoddart Sir John (1773-1856) Knight Journalist and Judge in Malta DNB: Stoddart, Sir John (1773-1856), writer and lawyer LBT ID: JoStodd1856 VIAF ID: 32345485 LOC ID: n83008299	B/BAP: 1773-02-06 DIED: 1856-11-21
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Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he befriended Coleridge and Wordsworth and after abandoning his early republican principles became a writer for the Times, and afterwards editor of the Tory newspaper New Times in 1817 and a judge in Malta (1826-40). His sister married William Hazlitt in 1808.
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (25 October 1825) “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (26 October 1824) “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (27 October 1824)