Jeremy Collier

(1650-1726)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726 DNB: Collier, Jeremy (1650–1726), anti-theatrical polemicist and bishop of the nonjuring Church of England LBT ID: JeColli1726 VIAF ID: 8269751 LOC ID: n50029118	B/BAP: 1650-09-23 DIED: 1726-04-26
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Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; a non-juring clergyman, he made himself notorious with the publication of A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698).
REFERENCES TO Jeremy Collier: Robert Southey to Herbert Hill, 31 December 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 159 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 8