Joseph Spence [Sir Harry Beaumont]

(1699-1768)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768 NRA: Spence Joseph (1699-1768) Anecdotist and Friend of Alexander Pope DNB: Spence, Joseph [pseud. Sir Harry Beaumont] (1699-1768), literary scholar and anecdotist LBT ID: JoSpenc1768 VIAF ID: 56625623 LOC ID: n50021261	B/BAP: 1699-04-28 DIED: 1768-08-20
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English essayist, friend of Pope, Oxford Professor of Poetry, and patron of Stephen Duck and Thomas Blacklock; author of Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists (1747).
REFERENCES TO Joseph Spence [Sir Harry Beaumont]: Lady Byron to John Murray, 16 February 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 January 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 157b Lord Byron to John Murray, 14 July 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 77 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. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ n1 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Second Conversation Found 1: ¶ 38 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ n2 Life of Byron: 1818 Verse 1: p. 157b Life of Byron: 1821 Found 3: ¶ 8 ¶ n1 ¶ 1 “Mr. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron” in The Times (30 January 1830) Found 1: ¶ n1 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 22 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIX. 1825-1827 Found 1: ¶ 10 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) John Keats Found 1: ¶ 7 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XV. Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ 43