George Bryan Brummell [Beau Brummell]

(1778-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brummell, Beau, 1778-1840 DNB: Brummell, George Bryan [known as Beau Brummell] (1778-1840), dandy and socialite LBT ID: BeBrumm1840 VIAF ID: 74649992 LOC ID: n50040823	B/BAP: 1778-06-07 DIED: 1840-03-30
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Dandy, socialite, and sometimes-friend of George, prince of Wales. He spent his later years in France avoiding creditors.
REFERENCES TO George Bryan Brummell [Beau Brummell]: Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's family; his indiscretions Found 1: ¶ n1 Madame de Staël Found 1: ¶ 3 Lady Caroline Lamb Found 1: ¶ 2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Anecdotes of Lord Byron Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Found 1: ¶ 42 Life of Byron: 1823 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 84 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 1: ¶ 66 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1: ¶ 9 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1816 Found 1: ¶ n1 Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 27 September [1844?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 21 October [1844?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 4 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 81 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 9 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 36 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) WILLIAM STEWART ROSE Found 1: ¶ 17 SIR LUMLEY SKEFFINGTON Found 1: ¶ 14 BEAU BRUMMELL Found 18: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 5