John Oswald [Sylvester Otway]

(1760 c.-1793)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Oswald, John, d. 1793 DNB: Oswald, John (c.1760-1793), journalist and poet LBT ID: JoOswal1793 VIAF ID: 100306464 LOC ID: n85316106	B/BAP: 1760 DIED: 1793-09-14
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Scottish poet who after service in the British Army in India became a radical journalist in London; he enlisted in the French army during the Revolution and was killed in the Vendée uprising.
REFERENCES TO John Oswald [Sylvester Otway]: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 135