Sir John Vanbrugh

(1664-1726)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664-1726 NRA: Vanbrugh Sir John (1664-1726) Knight Dramatist Architect and Herald DNB: Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726), playwright and architect LBT ID: JoVanbr1726 VIAF ID: 7398042 LOC ID: n50045023	B/BAP: 1664-01-24 DIED: 1726-03-26
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English playwright, author of The Provoked Wife (1697); as an architect designed Castle Howard and Blenheim.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Vanbrugh: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 116 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 4 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 15 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 29 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VI 1792-1803 Found 1: ¶ 11 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 3