NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Edwards, William Frédéric 1777-1842 LBT ID: WiEdwar1842 VIAF ID: 106966561 LOC ID: n86822630 | B/BAP: 1777 DIED: 1842-07-23 |
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Born in Jamaica where he was the son of a planter of the same name, he was a schoolmate
of William Hazlitt's at New College, Hackney before becoming a librarian at Bruges and from
1808 a physician and natural philosopher in Paris. | |