Sir Thomas Picton

(1758-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815 NRA: Picton Sir Thomas (1758-1815) Knight Lieutenant General Governor of Trinidad DNB: Picton, Sir Thomas (1758-1815), army officer and colonial governor LBT ID: ThPicto1815 VIAF ID: 15599329 LOC ID: n86104733	B/BAP: 1758-08-24 DIED: 1815-06-18
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Lieutenant-general and hero of the Peninsular Campaign who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
REFERENCES TO Sir Thomas Picton: Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 135 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1815 Verse 2: p. 385h p. 385h 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: ¶ 51 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Found 1: ¶ 2 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch X: 1814-15 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 39 ¶ n1