William Shield

(1748 c.-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shield, William, 1748-1829 DNB: Shield, William (bap. 1748/9, d. 1829), composer LBT ID: WiShiel1829 VIAF ID: 34644606 LOC ID: n82208047	B/BAP: 1748 DIED: 1829-01-25
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English composer of operas, ballets, and pantomimes; in 1817 he succeeded Sir William Parsons as master of musicians to the king.
REFERENCES TO William Shield: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 22 December 1819 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to John May, 4 March 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, [May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIV. 1818-1819 Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 61 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 2