Thomas Belsham

(1750-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Belsham, Thomas, 1750-1829 NRA: Belsham, Thomas (1750-1829) Unitarian minister theologian DNB: Belsham, Thomas (1750-1829), Unitarian minister LBT ID: ThBelsh1829 VIAF ID: 48230853 LOC ID: n85387760	B/BAP: 1750-04-15 DIED: 1829-11-11
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Unitarian minister and controversialist; he was professor at Hackney College (1789-96) and minister at Essex Street Chapel (1805). He was the elder brother of the writer William Belsham.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Belsham: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 19 October 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XIX. 1790-1792 Found 6: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ n1 Ch. XXVI. 1800-1803 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch III. 1809 Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch XVI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 18 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1810