Joseph Fawcett

(1758 c.-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fawcett, Joseph, 1758-1804 DNB: Fawcett, Joseph (c.1758–1804), Presbyterian minister and poet LBT ID: JoFawce1804 VIAF ID: 53226568 LOC ID: n88006152	B/BAP: 1758 DIED: 1804-01-24
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Presbyterian preacher at the Old Jewry meeting-house in London (1785-95) before taking up farming and succumbing to drink; he wrote poetry and was a radical friend of Godwin and Hazlitt.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Fawcett: Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 15 January 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 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 XIX. 1820-1824 Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. V 1798 Found 6: ¶ 25 ¶ 27 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 ¶ 35 ¶ 36 Ch. IX Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 Ch. XIX Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ n1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 6: ¶ 43 ¶ 44 ¶ 46 ¶ 47 ¶ 48 ¶ 50 Ch. II. 1785-1788 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 57 Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 4 Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 3: ¶ 15 ¶ 24 ¶ 54 Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 1: ¶ 25 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 2