John Hookham Frere

(1769-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846 NRA: Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846) Diplomat and Author DNB: Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846), diplomatist and author LBT ID: JoFrere1846 VIAF ID: 1141974 LOC ID: n83180262	B/BAP: 1769-05-21 DIED: 1846-01-07
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English diplomat and poet; educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was envoy to Lisbon (1800-02) and Madrid (1802-04, 1808-09); with Canning conducted the The Anti-Jacobin (1797-98); author of Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft (1817, 1818).
REFERENCES TO John Hookham Frere: George Ellis to Walter Scott, [May? 1805] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 7 April 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 1 October 1807 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to Robert Southey, November 1807 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 22 April 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 16 August 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 9 September 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 13 October 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Walter Scott to William Gifford, 25 October 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Murray to Walter Scott, 15 November 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 20 November 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 22 November 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, 30 December 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 14 January 1809 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 14 March 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 6 July 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 July 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Murray to Lord Byron, 24 November 1813 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Lord Byron, 26 February 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 10 November 1815 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray, 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 53 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Murray, 4 July 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Murray to Lord Byron, 12 September 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 4 John Murray to Walter Scott, 14 December 1816 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Walter Scott, 14 December 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Lord Byron, 22 January 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Lord Byron, 5 August 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 21 August 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 141a John Murray to Lord Byron, [29 August] 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 September 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Murray to Walter Scott, 17 March 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Lord Byron, 16 June 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [4 January 1819] 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: ¶ 3 “The Tent: Bristol Hunt and Hampstead Hunt” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (September 1819) 639-42 Found 1: ¶ 8 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 20 February 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 5 March 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 15 March 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 26 March 1820 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Bland to John Herman Merivale, 20 May 1820 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 September 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 19 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 October 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Herbert Hill, 24 February 1822 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Gifford to George Canning, 5 March 1826 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 205 First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 94 Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson, January 1829 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 6 Life of Byron: 1817 Verse 1: p. 141a Life of Byron: 1820 Life of Byron: 1821 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 6 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 1 (February 1831) 217-37 Found 1: ¶ 26 Sir Walter Scott to Lady Scott of Harden, 6 March 1832 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 8 October 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. 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