Thomas Medwin

(1788-1869)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869 NRA: Medwin Thomas (1788-1869) Biographer of PB Shelley DNB: Medwin, Thomas (1788-1869), writer and biographer LBT ID: ThMedwi1869 VIAF ID: 5271850 LOC ID: n50009957	B/BAP: 1788-03-20 DIED: 1869-08-02
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Lieutenant of dragoons who was with Byron and Shelley at Pisa; the author of Conversations of Lord Byron (1824) and The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (1847).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Medwin: Percy Bysshe Shelley to Catherine Pilfold, 18 July 1803 in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Found 1: ¶ 1 Edward Ellerker Williams to Edward John Trelawny, December 1821 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 12 December 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Preliminary Statement Found 1: ¶ 74 Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 6 [Thomas Colley Grattan?], “Lord Byron and his Memoirs” in The Attic Miscellany 1 (October 1824) 26-37 Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ [Sir John Stoddart], “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (25 October 1825) Found 1: ¶ 1 [Sir John Stoddart], “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (26 October 1824) Found 4: ¶ 21 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ 27 Clarke, John Bertridge, 1785?-1824, “[Thomas Medwin and Charles Wolfe]” in The Times (27 October 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 [Sir John Stoddart], “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (27 October 1824) Found 2: ¶ 39 ¶ 44 T. N., “Ballad on Sir John Moore” in Morning Chronicle (28 October 1824) Found 1: ¶ 2 Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841, “Lord Byron and the late Rev. Charles Wolfe” in Morning Chronicle (29 October 1824) Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 14 ¶ 18 “[Claims to “The Burial of Sir John Moore”]” in Globe and Traveller (30 October 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sharon Turner to John Murray, 30 October 1824 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 6: ¶ 53 ¶ 55 ¶ 59 ¶ 64 ¶ 67 ¶ 117 “Southey and Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 711-15 Found 7: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 19 St. Leger, Barry, 1799-1829, “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Monthly Magazine 11 (November 1824) 407-415 Found 7: ¶ 6 ¶ 29 ¶ 33 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 Found 22: ¶ 4 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 17 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 26 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 31 ¶ 32 ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 Algernon Hampden Flint, “The Verses of the Death of Sir J. Moore” in Morning Post (2 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 “Byron and Medwin's Conversations” in The Courier (3 November 1824) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 A Lady, “The Ode on Sir John Moore: A Card” in Morning Post (3 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 Murray, John, 1778-1843, “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in The Courier (5 November 1824) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 21 ¶ 28 “Mrs. Mardyn” in Morning Post (6 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 2 “Captain Medwin’s Account of Mr. Shelley” in Morning Chronicle (9 November 1824) Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 9 November 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 “The Lines on Sir John Moore” in Globe and Traveller (11 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 4 Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841, “The Ballad on Sir John Moore” in Morning Chronicle (11 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 3 “Medwin’s Byron’s Conversations” in Literary Gazette (13 November 1824) 725-26 Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in The Examiner (14 November 1824) 722-24 Found 10: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 11 ¶ 14 ¶ 19 ¶ 21 ¶ 28 “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in Morning Chronicle (15 November 1824) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 H. —, “Duel between Captain Stackpoole and Lieut. Cecil” in Literary Chronicle (20 November 1824) 743-44 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 7 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in The Sun (30 November 1824) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 “[Byron's Devotional Reading]” in The Sun (7 December 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, “Mr. Southey and Lord Byron” in The Courier (13 December 1824) Found 5: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 9 ¶ 12 “Mr. Southey and Lord Byron” in Literary Chronicle (18 December 1824) 811-12 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 30 Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, “Review of Dallas and Medwin” in Westminster Review 3 (January 1825) 1-35 Found 4: ¶ 54 ¶ 56 ¶ 68 ¶ 69 William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 21 January 1825 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 17 (February 1825) 131-51 Found 4: ¶ 47 ¶ 54 ¶ 61 ¶ “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in The Literary Magnet 4 (June 1825) 131-32 Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 18 (August 1825) 137-55 Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 10: ¶ 92 ¶ 97 ¶ 100 ¶ 101 ¶ 102 ¶ 103 ¶ 105 ¶ 112 ¶ 159 ¶ 179 Mr. Shelley. With a Criticism on his Genius. Found 1: ¶ 25 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Preface Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XXXII Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Life of Byron: 1822 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 21 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 13 ¶ 61 “Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Literary Journal 4 (10 July 1830) 21-23 Found 1: ¶ 2 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 2 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt [concluded]” in The Athenaeum (11 September 1830) 568-69 Found 1: ¶ 20 J. C. Hobhouse to John Galt, 8 September 1830 in “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 1: ¶ 2 J. C. Hobhouse to John Galt, 10 September 1830 in “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 1: ¶ 1 John Galt to J. C. Hobhouse, 11 September 1830 in “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 1: ¶ 5 John Galt to the New Monthly Magazine, 22 September 1830 in “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 1: ¶ 2 J. C. Hobhouse to the New Monthly Magazine, October 1830 in “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 1: ¶ 5 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Galt’s Life of Lord Byron” in New Monthly Magazine 27 (October 1830) 386-87 Found 1: ¶ 3 Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, “Galt’s Life of Lord Byron” in New Monthly Magazine 29 (November 1830) 502-03 Found 1: ¶ 4 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 6: ¶ 24 ¶ 2 ¶ 1 ¶ 5 ¶ 2 ¶ 5 “Moore’s Memoirs of Byron” in La Belle Assemblée NS 13 (January 1831) 72-99 Found 1: ¶ 41 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Found 1: ¶ 1a Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ n1 Countess of Blessington to Peter George Patmore, [December? 1832] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Expulsion Found 1: ¶ 12 Florence: 1819 Found 1: ¶ n1 Vol I Appendix Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 3: ¶ 38 ¶ 44 ¶ n1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IX” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (November 1847) 288-094 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVI. 1821 Found 1: ¶ 23 Ch. XXVIII. 1824-1825 Vol. V Appendix Found 5: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 11 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington IV Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 3: ¶ 171 ¶ 173 ¶ n1 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 8 Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 3 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. XV 1825 Found 4: ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 Ch. XVII 1826-28 Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. XX Found 1: ¶ 43 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IX. 1820-1821. Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 23 Chapter XI. 1825-1827. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XVII. Found 2: ¶ 32 ¶ 33 Chap. XXX. Found 3: ¶ 61 ¶ 62 ¶ n1 William de Morgan to the Countless of Lovelace, [1910 c.?] in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) SHELLEY Found 1: ¶ 16 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ n3 Notes by the Editor Found 1: ¶ n1