Robert Houlton

(1740 c.-1802 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Houlton, Robert, fl. 1755-1801 LBT ID: RoHoult1806 VIAF ID: 70291338 LOC ID: n82229213	B/BAP: 1740
SOURCES: James Grant Raymond, Life of Thomas Dermody (1806); John Rouse Bloxam, A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, ... of Saint Mary Magdalen College, Oxford (1879) 3:304-08; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Physician and poet educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and Trinity College Dublin; he practised medicine in Dublin until 1792, edited the Morning Herald (1792-93), composed a comic opera, Wilmore Castle (1800), and contributed to Raymond's Life of Dermody (1806).
REFERENCES TO Robert Houlton: 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 X Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6