Robert Lowth, bishop of London

(1710-1787)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787 NRA: Lowth Robert (1710-1787) Bishop of London DNB: Lowth, Robert (1710-1787), biblical critic and bishop of London LBT ID: RoLowth1787 VIAF ID: 54157151 LOC ID: n79029901	B/BAP: 1710-11-27 DIED: 1787-11-03
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Author of (in verse) The Judgment of Hercules, a Poem (1743) and (in prose) De sacre poesi Hebraeorum (1753), and other works. He was bishop of Oxford (1753) and bishop of London (1777).
REFERENCES TO Robert Lowth, bishop of London: Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, 11 May 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 21 September 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Portraits—the Author's Father. Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 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. VII. 1771-1776 Found 1: ¶ 21 Ch. IX. 1776-1777 Found 1: ¶ 18 Ch. XIV. 1786-1789 Found 1: ¶ 23 Ch. XVII. 1787 Found 2: ¶ 41 ¶ n1 Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 5: ¶ 26 ¶ 42 ¶ 45 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 Ch III. 1809 Found 2: ¶ 45 ¶ 47 Ch XIX. 1820-1824 Found 1: ¶ 7 Ch XXI. Found 1: ¶ 16 Ch XXII. Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch XXV. Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 14 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Moore’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 3 (March 1831) 238-252 Found 1: ¶ 12 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 94 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VI. 1804-1806 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 6 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXVII. Found 1: ¶ 3