William Falconer

(1732-1770)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Falconer, William, 1732-1769 NRA: Falconer, William (1732-1769) Poet DNB: Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770), poet and lexicographer LBT ID: WiFalco1770 VIAF ID: 42132675 LOC ID: n85028273	B/BAP: 1732-02-11 DIED: 1770
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Scottish seaman and poet; author of a long-popular poem, The Shipwreck (1762), and The Universal Marine Dictionary (1769).
REFERENCES TO William Falconer: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 13 April 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18 Found 1: ¶ n3 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XVIII Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 4: Coleridge Found 1: ¶ 9 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 5: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 14