John Corrie

(1769-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Corrie, John, Esq. LBT ID: JoCorri1839 VIAF ID: 26620865 LOC ID: no89014390	B/BAP: 1769 DIED: 1839-08-16
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (December 1839) 658; Catherine Hutton Beale, Memorials of the Old Meeting House and Burial Ground, Birmingham (1882) 49; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The son of Josiah Corrie (1725-1800); educated at Daventry Academy and New College, Hackney, he was a schoolmaster, president of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, and Unitarian minister at the Old Meeting House (1817-19). Maria Edgeworth admired his “very agreeable benevolent countenance, most agreeable voice.”
REFERENCES TO John Corrie: William Hazlitt to William Hazlitt sen.; [October 1793] in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 William Hazlitt to William Hazlitt sen.; 6 October 1793 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 2: ¶ 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 X. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch XVI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 18 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. II: 1791-95 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 8