Robert Emmet

(1778-1803)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Emmet, Robert, 1778-1803 DNB: Emmet, Robert (1778-1803), Irish nationalist LBT ID: RoEmmet1803 VIAF ID: 57548500 LOC ID: n83022127	B/BAP: 1778-03-04 DIED: 1803-09-20
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Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was a United Irishman allied with the French executed for plotting a rebellion.
REFERENCES TO Robert Emmet: Countess of Charleville to Sydney Owenson, 1 May 1809 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Godwin to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 30 March 1812 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIX William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVII 1820 Found 1: ¶ 22 Ch. X 1824 Found 1: ¶ n5 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VIII. 1811-1814