Sir Samuel Garth

(1661-1719)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719 NRA: Garth Sir Samuel (1661-1719) Knight Physician and Poet DNB: Garth, Sir Samuel (1660/61-1719), physician and poet LBT ID: SaGarth1719 VIAF ID: 29564062 LOC ID: n85024830	B/BAP: 1661 DIED: 1719-01-18
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English physician, poet, and member of the Kit-Kat club; he was author of the burlesque poem, The Dispensary (1699).
REFERENCES TO Sir Samuel Garth: R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, [1 August 1811] in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1: ¶ 7 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 12 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 74 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12