Gilbert Austin

(1753-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Austin, Gilbert, d. 1835 LBT ID: GiAusti1837 VIAF ID: 7241318 LOC ID: nr90021225	B/BAP: 1753 DIED: 1837-12-08
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (February 1838) 215; Wikipedia; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Irish elocutionist educated at Trinity College, Dublin, the author of Chironomia, or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery (1806). He edited the juvenile poems of Thomas Dermody, one of his pupils.
REFERENCES TO Gilbert Austin: Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1801?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 47 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 X Found 3: ¶ 14 ¶ 21 ¶ 24 Chapter XIV