Nathan Drake

(1766-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Drake, Nathan, 1766-1836 NRA: Drake, Nathan (1766-1836) essayist and physician DNB: Drake, Nathan (1766-1836), essayist and physician LBT ID: NaDrake1836 VIAF ID: 15551790 LOC ID: n50027517	B/BAP: 1766-01-15 DIED: 1836-06-07
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (August 1836) 215-16); DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English physician and man of letters who published a series of volumes consisting of essays and poems on literary topics beginning with Literary Hours (1798). He is best remembered for his encyclopedic Shakespeare and his Times (1817).
REFERENCES TO Nathan Drake: “To Correspondents” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (January 1818) title-page verso Found 1: ¶ 23 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 6