William Issac Roberts

(1786-1806)

LBT ID: WiRober1806	B/BAP: 1786-05-05 DIED: 1806-12-26
SOURCES: John Corry, The History of Bristol, Civil and Ecclesiastical (1816) 238; John Styles, Early Blossoms (1819) 263-316
Bristol poet and autodidact who worked in a banking concern before his early death by consumption; Robert Southey took an interest in publishing his posthumous volume.
REFERENCES TO William Issac Roberts: Robert Southey to Neville White, 11 March 1810 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Ch. XVIII. 1813 Found 1: ¶ 7