Edward Marcus Despard

(1751-1803)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Despard, Edward Marcus, 1751-1803 DNB: Despard, Edward Marcus (1751-1803), army officer and revolutionary LBT ID: EdDespa1803 VIAF ID: 78061393 LOC ID: n97036210	B/BAP: 1751-03-06 DIED: 1803-02-21
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Colonial official who upon being dismissed on frivolous charges, devised a plot against the government; he was executed for high treason.
REFERENCES TO Edward Marcus Despard: Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, [23 January 1799] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 June 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE AWAKENING. Verse 2: p. 11b p. 11b Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 21 April 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Examiner—the Author’s Imprisonment. Found 1: ¶ 113 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1806 Verse 2: p. 107b p. 107b Chapter III 1821 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1799 Found 1: ¶ 2