Sir Lumley St George Skeffington, second baronet

(1771-1850)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 NRA: Skeffington Sir Lumley St George (1771-1850) 2nd Baronet Dramatist and Fop DNB: Skeffington, Sir Lumley St George, second baronet (1771-1850), fop and playwright LBT ID: LuSkeff1850 VIAF ID: 45675757 LOC ID: n83073747	B/BAP: 1771-03-23 DIED: 1850-11-10
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Beau, playwright, and denizen of Carleton House; after his plays fell out of popularity his affectations made him a figure of ridicule.
REFERENCES TO Sir Lumley St George Skeffington, second baronet: Matthew Gregory Lewis to Lady Melbourne, [October 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Mary and Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt [10 December 1808] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 1 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 2: ¶ 120 ¶ 122 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Anecdotes of Lord Byron Found 1: ¶ 16 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) The Satirist. Found 3: ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Appendix vol I Found 1: ¶ 4 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 20 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1808 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) SIR LUMLEY SKEFFINGTON Found 6: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IV.