Richard Nash [Beau Nash]

(1674-1761)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Nash, Richard, 1674-1761 DNB: Nash, Richard [known as Beau Nash] (1674–1761), master of ceremonies and social celebrity LBT ID: RiNash1761 VIAF ID: 23282729 LOC ID: n50063217	B/BAP: 1674-10-18 DIED: 1761-02-12
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
From 1705 he was the renowned master of ceremonies at Bath.
REFERENCES TO Richard Nash [Beau Nash]: Charles Lamb to Mary Shelley, 26 July 1827 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 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) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 13 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1827