Samuel Salt

(1723 c.-1792)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Salt, Samuel, ca. 1723-1792 NRA: Salt Samuel (1780-1827) Traveller Consul General at Cairo DNB: Salt, Samuel (d. 1792), lawyer and benefactor of Charles Lamb, LBT ID: SaSalt1792 VIAF ID: 36793021 LOC ID: nr93034527	B/BAP: 1723 DIED: 1792-07-27
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at the Inner Temple, he was a barrister, Whig MP for Liskeard (1768-84) and Aldeburgh (1784-90), a governor of Christ's Hospital, and Charles Lamb's benefactor.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Salt: Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 1