David Lester Richardson

(1801-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Richardson, David Lester, 1801-1865 DNB: Richardson, David Lester (bap. 1801, d. 1865), poet and writer LBT ID: DaRicha1865 VIAF ID: 72944734 LOC ID: n88130947	B/BAP: 1801-02-15 DIED: 1865-11-27
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet and journalist; after service in India he published volumes of poetry and edited the London Weekly Review, (1824); on Macaulay's recommendation he was appointed professor of English literature of the Hindu College at Calcutta (1836).
REFERENCES TO David Lester Richardson: Samuel Maunder to William Jerdan, [December 1828?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 6: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. 17: Literary Characters Found 1: ¶ n1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVII 1826-28 Found 1: ¶ 5