John Braham

(1777 c.-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Braham, John, 1774-1856 NRA: Braham, John (c 1774-1856) Tenor Singer DNB: Braham, John (1777?-1856), singer LBT ID: JoBraha1856 VIAF ID: 27821078 LOC ID: n83047601	B/BAP: 1777 DIED: 1856-02-17
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English tenor who began his career at the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theaters; he assisted Isaac Nathan in setting Byron's Hebrew Melodies.
REFERENCES TO John Braham: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 February 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 February 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Walter Scott to Lord Byron, [November? 1815] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 23 January 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Kitchiner to William Jerdan, [1825?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Mathews. Found 1: ¶ 9 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 2 Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1817 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 35 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1814-15 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter IV 1818 Chapter V 1818 Found 2: ¶ 22 ¶ 23 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 11 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 19 Ch. 14: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 3: Poetry Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 34 Ch. 19: James Perry Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. 6: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 9 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 35 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 6 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII 1829-30 Found 1: ¶ 17 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XIV. 1815-16. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter XVI. 1815-22. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 9 Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 6 Letters: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 1