Sir John Simeon, first baronet

(1756-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Simeon, John, Sir, 1756-1824 DNB: Simeon, Sir John, first baronet (1755/6-1824), lawyer and politician LBT ID: JoSimeo1824 VIAF ID: 21085990 LOC ID: n84136481	B/BAP: 1756-03-18 DIED: 1824-02-04
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Educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, he was MP for Reading (1797-1802, 1806-18) and a supporter of William Pitt. He obtained his baronetcy in 1815 for legal services to George III.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Simeon, first baronet: Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, April 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Richard Duppa, 23 May 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, [1815?] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIII. 1807 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VI. 1815-1816.