William Parsons

(1764 c.-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Parsons William (fl 1784-1824) Poet DNB: Parsons, William (fl. 1785-1824), poet LBT ID: WiParso1828	B/BAP: 1764 DIED: 1828-01-15
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine 98 (January 1828) 92; DNB
Della Cruscan poet; author of A Poetical Tour in the Years 1784, 1785, and 1786. By a Member of the Arcadian Society at Rome (1787) and Ode to a Boy at Eton (1796).
REFERENCES TO William Parsons: Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 June 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1817 “[Moore’s Life of Lord Byron]” in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (8 January 1831) 19-23 Found 1: ¶ 41