Sir Banastre Tarleton, first baronet

(1754-1833)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre), 1754-1833 NRA: Tarleton Sir Banastre (1754-1833) Knight General MP DNB: Tarleton, Sir Banastre, baronet (1754–1833), army officer and politician LBT ID: BaTarle1833 VIAF ID: 32345561 LOC ID: n85089057	B/BAP: 1754-08-21 DIED: 1833-01-23
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After a successful military career in the American Revolution he was the lover of Perdita Robinson, friend of Charles James Fox, and opposition MP for Liverpool (1790-1806, 1807-12).
REFERENCES TO Sir Banastre Tarleton, first baronet: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin, [10 June 1797] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 31 January 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Roscoe to Thomas Creevey [2? October 1812] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter IV. 1788-1796 Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter IX. 1806-1807 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 35 Chapter XII. 1811-1812 Found 1: ¶ 45 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VI: 1810 Ch. VIII: 1812 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n4