William Ayrton

(1777-1858)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ayrton, William, 1777-1858 NRA: Ayrton, William (1777-1858) Musical Writer DNB: Ayrton, William (1777-1858), impresario and writer LBT ID: WiAyrto1858 VIAF ID: 39166330 LOC ID: no2007123056	B/BAP: 1777-02-24 DIED: 1858-05-08
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A founding member of the Philharmonic Society and manager of the Italian opera at the King's Theatre; he wrote for the Morning Chronicle and the Examiner.
REFERENCES TO William Ayrton: Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [30 March 1810] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to William Ayrton, 12 May 1817 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 499a Charles Lamb to Charles and James Ollier, 18 June 1818 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop, 6 September 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Hood, [early December? 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Ayrton, 14 March 1830 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [24 May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 3 June 1830 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 3 June 1830 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Marianne Ayrton, [16 April 1833] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt X Found 4: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary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: ¶ 18 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 9 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 6: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 ¶ 12 ¶ 20 ¶ 25 Ch. XVIII 1829-30 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. X. 1819-1824 Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Preface Found 1: ¶ 6 Letters: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1816 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1817 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Letters: 1818 Letters: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 9 Letters: 1821 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 ¶ 2 ¶ 1 Letters: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1823 Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1828 Letters: 1829 Found 1: ¶ 7 Letters: 1830 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 2 Letters: 1833 Found 1: ¶ 1 Appendix II Found 1: ¶ 2