Henry Blanch Rosser

(1799 c.-1822)

LBT ID: HeRosse1822	B/BAP: 1799 DIED: 1822-07-10
SOURCES: European Magazine (August 1822) 185; Venn; Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo 8 (1952) 113ff; Godwin Diary (web)
The son of Richard Rosser, a perfumer and neighbour of William Godwin; he was educated at Peterhouse and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge (B.A. 1823. He was Godwin's pupil and an acquaintance of Jeremy Bentham before going to Cambridge. He drowned while on a visit to Paris.
REFERENCES TO Henry Blanch Rosser: William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 31 August 1819 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Henry Blanch Rosser, 7 March 1820 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Ch. X. 1819-1824 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 12