Sir William Curtis, first baronet

(1752-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829 DNB: Curtis, Sir William, first baronet (1752-1829), banker and politician LBT ID: WiCurti1829 VIAF ID: 13067288 LOC ID: no91001405	B/BAP: 1752-01-25 DIED: 1829-01-18
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A banker and friend of George IV; he was Lord Mayor of London (1795) and as Tory MP for London (1790-1818) was a target of Whig mockery.
REFERENCES TO Sir William Curtis, first baronet: Charles Lamb to John Morgan, 8 March 1811 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 10 July 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 15 May 1824 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 138 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. XXI. 1791-1796 Found 1: ¶ 1 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 39 Letitia Landon to William Jerdan, [July 1834] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1822 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 20 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: L.E.L. Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XVII. Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 6 Found 1: ¶ 48 Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 25 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 V Found 1: ¶ 3 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 1: ¶ 33 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 6 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818