NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Salt, Samuel, ca. 1723-1792 NRA: Salt Samuel (1780-1827) Traveller Consul General at Cairo DNB: Salt, Samuel (d. 1792), lawyer and benefactor of Charles Lamb, LBT ID: SaSalt1792 VIAF ID: 36793021 LOC ID: nr93034527 | B/BAP: 1723 DIED: 1792-07-27 |
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Educated at the Inner Temple, he was a barrister, Whig MP for Liskeard (1768-84) and
Aldeburgh (1784-90), a governor of Christ's Hospital, and Charles Lamb's benefactor. | |