Edward Sterling

(1773-1847)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sterling, Edward, 1773-1847 LBT ID: EdSterl1847 VIAF ID: 44135414 LOC ID: nr00012663	B/BAP: 1773 DIED: 1847
SOURCES: DNB ["John Sterling"]; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Son of a subdean of Waterford Cathedral, he was educated at Trinity College Dublin and worked as a correspondent for the Times (1815-1840); he was the father of the poet John Sterling.
REFERENCES TO Edward Sterling: 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt I Found 1: ¶ 5 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 3 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXII Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 11 ¶ n1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1812 Found 1: ¶ 49 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXVI. Found 1: ¶ 28 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Introduction Found 1: ¶ 24