William Combe

(1742-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Combe, William, 1742-1823 NRA: Combe, William (1741-1823) Writer DNB: Combe [formerly Combes], William (1742-1823), writer and literary imitator LBT ID: WiCombe1823 VIAF ID: 69052911 LOC ID: n50035341	B/BAP: 1742-03-25 DIED: 1823-06-19
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English satirist and miscellaneous writer; his Tours of Dr. Syntax (1812, 1820, 1821) were frequently reprinted.
REFERENCES TO William Combe: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 June 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. I” in New Monthly Magazine 79 (March 1847) 303-08 Found 2: ¶ 18 ¶ 26 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. II” in New Monthly Magazine 79 (April 1847) 515-22 Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. VI. 1799-1800 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Horace & James Smith I Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 11 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 3