Charles Symmons

(1749-1826)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Symmons, Charles, 1749-1826 NRA: Symmons Charles (1749-1826) Poet and Literary Biographer DNB: Symmons, Charles (1749–1826), poet and biographer LBT ID: ChSymmo1826 VIAF ID: 76665613 LOC ID: n83026978	B/BAP: 1749 DIED: 1826-04-27
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Educated at Westminster School, Lincoln's Inn, Glasgow University, and Cambridge, he was a prebendary of St David's Cathedral, a playwright, and author of the life of Milton prefixed to his Works (1806).
REFERENCES TO Charles Symmons: Robert Southey to John Adamson, 12 August 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch I. 1800-1807 Found 1: ¶ 19 Ch III. 1809 Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch XVII. 1820-1824 Found 5: ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 Ch XXIV. Found 1: ¶ 11 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 52 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIV. 1808