William Bryan

(1812 fl.)

LBT ID: WiBryan1812
SOURCES: Elijah Waring, Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams the bard of Glamorgan (1850) 92-93n; The New-Church Review 14 (1907) 197-98
Originally a Quaker and copper-plate engraver, he was an associate of the mystic Richard Brothers and the Avignon Society, emigrating to America some time after 1812. He was an acquaintance of Robert Southey.
REFERENCES TO William Bryan: Robert Southey to John Rickman, July 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Richard Duppa, 11 July 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIV. 1808