Thomas Skinner Surr

(1770-1847)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Surr, T. S. (Thomas Skinner), 1770-1847 DNB: Surr, Thomas Skinner (bap. 1770, d. 1847), novelist LBT ID: ThSurr1847 VIAF ID: 51679459 LOC ID: n84082174	B/BAP: 1770-10-20 DIED: 1847-02-15
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Student at Christ's Hospital and clerk at the Bank of England who published society novels containing portraits of notable persons, including A Winter in London (1806) satirizing the Duchess of Devonshire.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Skinner Surr: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 43 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 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 7 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1801-1803 Found 1: ¶ 1