John Tweddell

(1769-1799)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tweddell, John, 1769-1799 DNB: Tweddell, John (1769–1799), classical and archaeological scholar LBT ID: JoTwedd1799 VIAF ID: 68805589 LOC ID: nr93040455	B/BAP: 1769-06-01 DIED: 1799-07-25
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After study under Samuel Parr he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was an acquaintance of John Wishart and John Heys; he was a radical acquaintance of William Godwin who died in Athens, where Byron afterwards laid a stone at his grave.
REFERENCES TO John Tweddell: 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 XXIII. Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Introduction Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 19