Robert Surtees

(1779-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Surtees, Robert, 1779-1834 NRA: Surtees Robert (1779-1834) antiquary and topographer DNB: Surtees, Robert (1779-1834), historian LBT ID: RoSurte1834 VIAF ID: 10196202	B/BAP: 1779-04-01 DIED: 1834-02-11
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File
English antiquary and historian educated at Christ Church, Oxford; his county history of Durham began appearing in 1816. Reginal Heber and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe were among his schoolmates and Sir Walter Scott was a friend.
REFERENCES TO Robert Surtees: Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 20 May 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 29 December 1828 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Neville White, 20 January 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810 Chapter II 1827 Found 1: ¶ 40 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828 Ch. XXXII. 1829 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 20: 1826-52 Found 1: ¶ 43