Richard Edgcumbe, second earl of Mount Edgcumbe

(1764-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839 DNB: Edgcumbe, Richard, second earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764-1839), writer on opera LBT ID: LdMtEdgec2 VIAF ID: 2816102 LOC ID: nr93027415	B/BAP: 1764-09-13 DIED: 1839-09-26
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The son of the first earl, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was Tory MP for Fowey (1786-95); he wrote Musical Reminiscences of an Old Amateur; chiefly respecting the Italian Opera in England (1825).
REFERENCES TO Richard Edgcumbe, second earl of Mount Edgcumbe: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 6