John Watkins

(1765-1831 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Watkins, John, fl. 1792-1831 DNB: Watkins, John (fl. c.1786-1831), writer LBT ID: JoWatki1831 VIAF ID: 62744450 LOC ID: nr95009273	B/BAP: 1765-08-06
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English schoolmaster, biographer, and associate of Samuel Badcock; he compiled a Universal Biographical and Historical Dictionary (1800) and wrote the first life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
REFERENCES TO John Watkins: Alicia Le Fanu to Lady Morgan, 19 February 1817 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXXIII Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter XXXV Found 1: ¶ 10 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1822 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 45 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 88 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter V