John Bidlake

(1755-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bidlake, John, 1755-1814 NRA: Bidlake, John (1755-1814) Royal Chaplain Poet DNB: Bidlake, John (1755-1814), schoolmaster and Church of England clergyman LBT ID: JoBidla1814 VIAF ID: 45745735 LOC ID: n85217741	B/BAP: 1755 DIED: 1814-02-17
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Plymouth schoolmaster and prolific minor poet; among his pupils were Sir Charles Eastlake and Benjamin Haydon.
REFERENCES TO John Bidlake: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 66 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 20