NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Whittington, Richard, d. 1423 DNB: Whittington, Richard [Dick] (c.1350-1423), merchant and mayor of London LBT ID: DiWhitt1423 VIAF ID: 62788092 LOC ID: n50020371 | B/BAP: 1350 DIED: 1423 |
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Thrice lord mayor of London; he was the subject of a popular legend in which the mayor
makes his fortune by the sale of his cat. | |
REFERENCES TO Richard Whittington [Dick Whittington]: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 5 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 20 June 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1:
¶ 45 Charles Lamb to John Rickman, 3 October 1828 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 3 Sydney Smith to Sarah Austin, 6 March 1841 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal
Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their
Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Horace & James Smith I Found 1:
¶ 4 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter IV. Found 1:
¶ 6 Douglas Jerrold Found 1:
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