Floyer Sydenham

(1710-1787)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sydenham, Floyer, 1710-1787 NRA: Sydenham, Floyer (1710-1787) Barrister Translator of Plato DNB: Sydenham, Floyer (1710–1787), translator LBT ID: FlSyden1787 VIAF ID: 402800 LOC ID: n79054709	B/BAP: 1710 DIED: 1787-04-01
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he was a clergyman, barrister, translator of Plato, and friend of James Harris of Malmesbury. He died impoverished and possibly insane.
REFERENCES TO Floyer Sydenham: 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 XXI. Found 1: ¶ 7