James Crichton [The Admirable Crichton]

(1560-1582)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Crichton, James, 1560-1582 DNB: Crichton, James [called the Admirable Crichton] (1560-1582), rhetorician and soldier LBT ID: JaCrich1582 VIAF ID: 38285983 LOC ID: n83041497	B/BAP: 1560-08-19 DIED: 1582-07-03
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Scottish rhetorician who made his reputation in Italy; the “admirable Crichton” reportedly spoke twelve languages.
REFERENCES TO James Crichton [The Admirable Crichton]: Lady Margaret Stanley to Sydney Owenson, 18 September 1811 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Bonnycastle. Found 1: ¶ 5 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 2 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington V Found 1: ¶ 16 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography,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 XXXVI William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 19