William Oldys

(1696-1761)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Oldys, William, 1696-1761 NRA: Oldys William (1696-1761) Herald and Antiquary DNB: Oldys, William (1696-1761), herald and antiquary LBT ID: WiOldys1761 VIAF ID: 42182921 LOC ID: n86838625	B/BAP: 1696-07-14 DIED: 1761-04-15
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English antiquary whose anecdotes of early writers preserved much valuable information about seventeenth-century poets.
REFERENCES TO William Oldys: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 29 August 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XVI 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 I Found 1: ¶ 7 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 17