James Silk Buckingham

(1786-1855)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855 NRA: Buckingham, James Silk (1786-1855) Author Traveller MP DNB: Buckingham, James Silk (1786-1855), author and traveller LBT ID: JaBucki1855 VIAF ID: 54910363 LOC ID: n50056195	B/BAP: 1786-08-25 DIED: 1855-06-30
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Traveler, crusading journalist, and MP for Sheffield (1832-37); he edited the Oriental Herald (1824-29) and founded the Athenaeum (1828).
REFERENCES TO James Silk Buckingham: Henry Colburn to William Jerdan, 31 December 1827 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 116 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 36 Ch. 2: Personal Notes Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 5: On Life Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 35 Ch. 10: Anecdotes Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ n1 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ n2 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3