James Losh

(1763-1833)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Losh, James, 1762-1833 NRA: Losh James (1763-1833) Industrialist and Reformer DNB: Losh, James (1763–1833), barrister LBT ID: JaLosh1833 VIAF ID: 48290965 LOC ID: n87860760	B/BAP: 1763-06-10 DIED: 1833-09-23
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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a barrister on the Northern Circuit, philanthropist, editor of Milton's Areopagitica, and friend of Wordsworth. Southey described him as “coming nearer the ideal of a perfect man than any other person whom it has ever been my good fortune to know.”
REFERENCES TO James Losh: Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 14 March 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XV. 1809