A retired haberdasher, he was the miserly agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company with whom Charles and Mary Lamb lodged at Enfield from 1829-33.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Westwood senior:

Charles Lamb to James Gillman, [30 November 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [22 January 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, [May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [28 June 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, 12 November 1830 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [27 April 1833] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, May 1833 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)