Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick

(1783-1848)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848 NRA: Meyrick Sir Samuel Rush (1783-1848) Knight Antiquary DNB: Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush (1783-1848), antiquary and historian of arms and armour LBT ID: SaMeyri1848 VIAF ID: 59385116 LOC ID: nr95037611	B/BAP: 1783-08-26 DIED: 1848-04-02
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English attorney and antiquary, educated at Queen's College, Oxford; he published A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour as it existed in Europe (1824).
REFERENCES TO Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick: Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 29 October 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1823 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 23