NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pye, Robert Hampden LBT ID: RoPye1786 VIAF ID: 58949638 LOC ID: nr92044807 | B/BAP: 1746 |
SOURCES: Janet Todd, A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers (1987); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English military officer who served in the American war; he was the younger brother of
the laureate who in 1766 became the second husband of the poet Jael Henriett Pye (d. 1782).
Charles Lamb reports that he and his brother were friends of the actress Fanny
Kelly. | |
REFERENCES TO Robert Hampden Pye: Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
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