Robert Bland the elder

(1740-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bland, R. (Robert), 1730-1816 DNB: Bland, Robert (1740-1816), man-midwife LBT ID: RoBland1816 VIAF ID: 74243073 LOC ID: n86855113	B/BAP: 1740 DIED: 1816-06-29
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Physician and man-midwife in London; he was the father of the poet and translator of the same name.
REFERENCES TO Robert Bland the elder: Hodgson, Francis, 1781-1852, “Biography. Rev. Robert Bland” in Literary Gazette (23 April 1825) 725-26 Found 1: ¶ 2 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XI. 1812. Found 1: ¶