LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689 NRA: Jeffreys George (1648-1689) 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem judge DNB: Jeffreys, George, first Baron Jeffreys (1645-1689), judge LBT ID: GeJeffr1689 VIAF ID: 44291859 LOC ID: n84141087 | B/BAP: 1645-05-15 DIED: 1689-04 |
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Known as the “hanging judge,” he was chief justice of king's bench (1683-1685) in which
capacity he presided over the trial of Algernon Sidney and the Rye House plotters; he died
in the Tower of London. | |
REFERENCES TO George Jeffreys, first baron Jeffreys: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Childhood,” 26 July 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 4 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 17 July 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 3 Sir James Mackintosh to William Godwin, [late 1823] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1:
¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1:
¶ 6 Chapter VIII Found 1:
¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Poetry and Politics Found 1:
¶ 2 Saba Holland, 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) Chapter VI Found 1:
¶ 104 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1:
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