John Ferriar

(1761-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ferriar, John, 1761-1815 NRA: Ferriar, John (1761-1815) Physician and Essayist DNB: Ferriar, John (1761–1815), physician LBT ID: JoFerri1815 VIAF ID: 72173157 LOC ID: n87869405	B/BAP: 1761-11-21 DIED: 1815-02-04
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Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a Manchester physician and friend of Walter Scott and Richard Heber; he published Illustrations of Sterne (1798).
REFERENCES TO John Ferriar: John Murray to Walter Scott, 8 July 1813 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 18 August 1813 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1813 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 11 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XI. Found 1: ¶ n1