Sir William Rough

(1772 c.-1838)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rough, William, 1772 or 3-1838 NRA: Rough William (c 1772-1838) lawyer and poet DNB: Rough, Sir William (1772/3–1838), lawyer and poet LBT ID: WiRough1838 VIAF ID: 68356692 LOC ID: n2006047640	B/BAP: 1772 DIED: 1838-05-19
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Educated at Wesminster and Trinity College, Cambridge (where he knew Southey and Coleridge, respectively), he was a poet, barrister, and chief justice of the supreme court in Ceylon.
REFERENCES TO Sir William Rough: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 25 July 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 23 April 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 12 February 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 10 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. VIII. 1801 Ch. XV. 1809 Ch. XVI. 1810-1811