Capel Lofft

(1751-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lofft, Capel, 1751-1824 DNB: Lofft, Capel (1751-1824), radical editor and writer LBT ID: CaLofft1824 VIAF ID: 74961350 LOC ID: n85089569	B/BAP: 1751-11-14 DIED: 1824-05-26
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet, lawyer, and political reformer; he was the patron of the poet Robert Bloomfield. Charles Lamb described him as “the genius of absurdity.”