Samuel Crowther

(1769-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Crowther, Samuel, 1768 or 9-1829 LBT ID: SaCrowt1829 VIAF ID: 51531058 LOC ID: nr00035728	B/BAP: 1769-06-09 DIED: 1829-09-28
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (December 1829) 563-64; Eves and Kimpel, Samuel Richardson (1971); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Clergyman who served Christ's Hospital while Leigh Hunt was a student there; he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Crowther: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 51