Vicesimus Knox

(1752-1821)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821 DNB: Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821), headmaster and writer LBT ID: ViKnox1821 VIAF ID: 68978223 LOC ID: n50042398	B/BAP: 1752-12-08 DIED: 1821-09-06
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Essayist, clergyman, and headmaster of Tonbridge School; he published Liberal Education, or, a Practical Treatise on the Method of acquiring Useful and Polite Learning (1781) and other works.
REFERENCES TO Vicesimus Knox: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [29 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. IV. 1765-1766 Found 1: ¶ 22 Ch. XXIII. 1794 Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 18 Ch I. 1800-1807 Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 72