NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846 NRA: Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846) Diplomat and Author DNB: Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846), diplomatist and author LBT ID: JoFrere1846 VIAF ID: 1141974 LOC ID: n83180262 | B/BAP: 1769-05-21 DIED: 1846-01-07 |
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English diplomat and poet; educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was envoy to Lisbon
(1800-02) and Madrid (1802-04, 1808-09); with Canning conducted the The
Anti-Jacobin (1797-98); author of Prospectus and Specimen of an
intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft (1817, 1818). | |