George Colman the younger

(1762-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Colman, George, 1762-1836 NRA: Colman, George (1762-1836) Dramatist DNB: Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836), playwright and theatre manager LBT ID: GeColma1836 VIAF ID: 30345422 LOC ID: n50029130	B/BAP: 1762-10-21 DIED: 1836-10-26
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet, playwright and censor of plays; manager of the Haymarket Theater (1789-1813); author of The Iron Chest (1796) taken from Godwin's novel Caleb Williams.
REFERENCES TO George Colman the younger: Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 9 January 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 10 Lord Byron to John Taylor, 25 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 October 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey, “Memoir: School Recollections,” 10 January 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 2: ¶ 103 ¶ 104 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 26 Life of Byron: 1815 Life of Byron: 1821 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 56 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. VI.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 37 (February 1833) 214-222 Found 1: ¶ 9 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. X.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 39 (September 1833) 33-46 Found 1: ¶ 6 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (June 1834) 583-93 Found 2: ¶ 44 ¶ 59 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 87 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 9: ¶ 23 ¶ 42 ¶ 52 ¶ 60 ¶ 61 ¶ 64 ¶ 67 ¶ 68 ¶ 69 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IV” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (June 1847) 137-43 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: X Ch. VI. 1799-1800 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 21: Sun Anecdotes Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 7: A Character Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 11 Ch 21: My Writings Verse 2: p. 297a p. 297a The Satirist. Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 9 ¶ n1 Ch. 14: The Past Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. 4: Thomas Hunt Found 3: ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 Ch. 5: On Life Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ 8 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 8 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 80 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 1: ¶ 54 Ch. III. 1800 Found 3: ¶ 6 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter II. Found 3: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 30 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1801 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 14