NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Roscoe, William, 1753-1831 NRA: Roscoe, William (1753-1831), banker, botanist, historian and politician DNB: Roscoe, William (1753-1831), historian and patron of the arts LBT ID: WiRosco1831 VIAF ID: 15550259 LOC ID: n50048425 | B/BAP: 1753-03-08 DIED: 1831-06-27 |
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Historian, poet, and man of letters; author of Life of Lorenzo di
Medici (1795) and Life and Pontificate of Leo X (1805). He
was Whig MP for Liverpool (1806-1807) and edited the Works of Pope,
10 vols (1824). | |