Alexander Geddes

(1737-1802)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Geddes, Alexander, 1737-1802 NRA: Geddes Alexander (1737-1802) Biblical Critic DNB: Geddes, Alexander (1737-1802), Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar LBT ID: AlGedde1802 VIAF ID: 72146311 LOC ID: n84001319	B/BAP: 1737-09-04 DIED: 1802-02-26
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Roman Catholic priest, poet, antiquary, and biblical translator; an appealing eccentric, his unorthodox writings and behavior were frowned upon by the authorities.
REFERENCES TO Alexander Geddes: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 June 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IV. 1796 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: ¶ 70 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 16 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7