John Chester

(1764-1842)

LBT ID: JoChest1842	B/BAP: 1764-11-02 DIED: 1842-03-29
SOURCES: Berta Lawrence, Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset (1970) 139-40; kittybrewster.com
Of Nether-Stowey and Chapel Terrace, Redruth; he was a farmer who traveled to Germany with Coleridge and Wordsworth; he was afterwards a purser for the Tincroft Mine.
REFERENCES TO John Chester: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. V 1798 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3