Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

(1751-1830)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey, 1751-1830 DNB: Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey (1751–1830), orientalist LBT ID: NaHalhe1830 VIAF ID: 41864910 LOC ID: n81043548	B/BAP: 1751-05-25 DIED: 1830-02-18
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Educated at Harrow (where he was a schoolmate of Sheridan) and Christ Church, Oxford, he was a Nabob, oriental scholar, MP for Lymington (1791) and follower of Richard Brothers and Joanna Southcott.
REFERENCES TO Nathaniel Brassey Halhed: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ n2 Ch. V. 1767-1771 Found 1: ¶ 4 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VII Found 1: ¶ n2