William Bodham Donne

(1807-1882)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882 NRA: Donne William Bodham (1807-1882) Examiner of Plays DNB: Donne, William Bodham (1807–1882), essayist and examiner of plays LBT ID: WiDonne1882 VIAF ID: 24972360 LOC ID: n50027905	B/BAP: 1807-07-29 DIED: 1882-06-20
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The son of Edward Charles Donne; educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was librarian at the London Library, examiner of plays, and a contributor to the reviews.
REFERENCES TO William Bodham Donne: Charles Lamb to Grace Williams, [21 April 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIV: 1837-38 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1830 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2