George Richards

(1767-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Richards, George, 1767-1837 DNB: Richards, George (bap. 1767, d. 1837), poet and Church of England clergyman LBT ID: GeRicha1837 VIAF ID: 70455979 LOC ID: n87869395	B/BAP: 1767-09-15 DIED: 1837-03-30
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet and clergyman who gained much attention with his Oxford prize-poem The Aboriginal Britons (1791).
REFERENCES TO George Richards: Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 43 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 38 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 11: The R.S.L. Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 12 ¶ 18