Thomas Ashe

(1770-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ashe, Thomas, 1770-1835 NRA: Ashe Thomas (1770-1835) army officer and writer DNB: Ashe, Thomas (1770-1835), army officer and writer LBT ID: ThAshe1835 VIAF ID: 6380112 LOC ID: n85247832	B/BAP: 1770-07-15 DIED: 1835-12-17
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Irish literary adventurer who published Memoirs of Mammoth and other Bones found in the Vicinity of the Ohio (1806) Travels in America in 1806 (1808), and The Spirit of the Book (1811) purporting to contain memoirs of Queen Caroline; he died impoverished at Bath.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Ashe: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 58 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ n2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 16