William Chaworth

(1726-1765)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chaworth, William, 1726?-1765 LBT ID: WiChawo1765 VIAF ID: 46171607 LOC ID: n2005057544	B/BAP: 1726 DIED: 1765-01
SOURCES: Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
He was killed in a dispute with the fifth Lord Byron, who was convicted but not punished for the crime.
REFERENCES TO William Chaworth: Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's family; his indiscretions Found 1: ¶ 8 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 Chapter XXVI Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 3: ¶ 9 ¶ 43 ¶ 58 Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 14 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 6 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 2 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 13 (February 1830) 217-37 Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 17 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 23 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 15 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 15 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 13 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1: ¶ 7