William Pitt Scargill

(1787-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Scargill, William Pitt, 1787-1836 DNB: Scargill, William Pitt (1787-1836), Unitarian minister and writer LBT ID: WiScarg1836 VIAF ID: 32724259 LOC ID: no2003129785	B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1836-01-24
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Unitarian minister and novelist who became a writer for the Tory press; he was author of Essays on Various Subjects (1815) and The Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister (1834).
REFERENCES TO William Pitt Scargill: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 43 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829 Found 1: ¶ 1