Richard Hurd, bishop of Worcester

(1720-1808)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hurd, Richard, 1720-1808 NRA: Hurd Richard (1720-1808) Bishop of Worcester DNB: Hurd, Richard (1720-1808), bishop of Worcester LBT ID: RiHurd1808 VIAF ID: 12417397 LOC ID: n50029722	B/BAP: 1720-01-13 DIED: 1808-05-28
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Bishop of Worcester (1781) and highly-regarded scholar-critic; editor of Horace's Ars Poetica (1749), author of Moral and Political Dialogues (1759), and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762). He was the friend and editor of Bishop William Warburton.
REFERENCES TO Richard Hurd, bishop of Worcester: James Hodgson to Francis Hodgson, 16 May 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 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. XVIII. 1789 Found 21: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 10 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 18 ¶ 21 ¶ 24 ¶ 26 ¶ 30 ¶ 31 ¶ 33 ¶ 44 ¶ 45 ¶ 46 ¶ n2 ¶ n2 ¶ n2 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 ¶ n3 Ch. XXIII. 1794 Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ n1 Ch II. 1807-1810 Found 1: ¶ 19 Ch XXV. Found 1: ¶ 13 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ n2 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 30 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1805 Found 1: ¶ 39 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 28 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VI. 1810. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)