Sir Brooke Boothby, seventh baronet

(1744-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Boothby, Brooke, Sir, 1743-1824 NRA: Boothby Sir Brooke (1743-1824) Baronet Poet DNB: Boothby, Sir Brooke, seventh baronet (1744–1824), poet and writer LBT ID: BrBooth1824 VIAF ID: 3548310 LOC ID: no90010225	B/BAP: 1744-06-03 DIED: 1824-01-23
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English poet and dandy, educated at St John's College, Cambridge; he was an acquaintance of Rousseau and a member of Anna Seward's literary circle at Lichfield.
REFERENCES TO Sir Brooke Boothby, seventh baronet: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 76 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 26