Sir Samuel Romilly

Standard Name: Romilly, Sir Samuel

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Margaret Croker
MC published, with her name and a quotation from Byron , A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly.
Romilly, a reforming lawyer, killed himself after his wife's death.
Croker, Margaret. A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly. John Souter, 1818.
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Textual Production Mary Stockdale
MS published A Shroud for Sir S. Romilly , An Elegy, on the reforming lawyer who had died by his own hand.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She had written and published a different and happier poem for him, A Plume for Sir Samuel Romilly ; or, The Offering of the Fatherless, An Elegy, when he was standing for election to...
politics Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL contributed generously in time and energy to the election campaign of her brother-in-law George Lamb for the Westminster seat that was vacated by the suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly .
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Friends, Associates Maria Edgeworth
By now ME was a celebrity, and could count on being introduced to the local literati when she travelled. On this visit to London she finally met Etiénne Dumont , the utilitarian, with whom she...
Friends, Associates Mary Russell Mitford
A few years later, as a published author, MRM became friendly with James Perry (editor of the Morning Chronicle). At his house she met a number of eminent men: politicians Lord Brougham and Lord Erskine

Timeline

2 November 1818: Sir Samuel Romilly, well known as an energetic...

National or international item

2 November 1818

Sir Samuel Romilly , well known as an energetic and popular reforming MP and lawyer, killed himself by cutting his throat.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
88 (1818): 465-67

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