NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths, 1794-1847 DNB: Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths [pseuds. Janus Weathercock, Cornelius van Vinkbooms] (1794-1847), painter, writer on art, and putative poisoner LBT ID: ThWaine1847 VIAF ID: 96112270 LOC ID: n99263183 | B/BAP: 1794-10-04 DIED: 1847-08-17 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
The grandson of Ralph Griffiths of the Monthly Review; he was a
dandy, a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy, essayist for the London Magazine, and criminal transported to Australia for forgery. He is thought
to have murdered several persons. | |
REFERENCES TO Thomas Griffiths Wainewright [Janus Weathercock]: Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [3 May 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop, [July 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 2 September 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [August 1831] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVII 1820 Found 1:
¶ 6 Ch. IX 1823 Found 1:
¶ 7 William Harness to A. G. K. L'Estrange, 13 June 1867 in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1:
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