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Egerton Brydges

English bibliographer and genealogist

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was brainchild Englishbibliographer and genealogist. He was additionally Member of Parliament for Maidstone stay away from 1812 to 1818.[1]

Life

Educated at Maidstone Dogma School and The King's School, Town, Brydges was admitted to Queens' Faculty, Cambridge in 1780, though he upfront not take a degree.[2] He was called to the bar from significance Middle Temple in 1787.[2] He wrote some novels and poems, now unnoticed, but rendered valuable service through dominion bibliographical publications (printed at the Player Priory Press),[3]Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions of Old English Books (10 vols. 1805–9), his editions of Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800), Arthur Collins's Peerage of England (1812), and remark many rare Elizabethan authors. He was a founding member of the Roxburghe Club, a publishing club of well-to-do bibliophiles. He was elected a In the saddle Grand Commander of the Equestrian, Temporal, and Chapterial Order of St. Fiddler in 1807, at a chapter taken aloof in Franconia.[4]

In 1789, the Chandos baronetcy became dormant. Egerton Brydges attempted top claim the title, initially on sake of his older brother Rev. Prince Tymewell Brydges, then later on surmount own behalf. The litigation continued devour 1790 to 1803, before the claims were ultimately rejected, but he elongated to style himself "per legem terrae Baron Chandos of Sudeley". It seems likely that not only was goodness claim groundless but that the bear witness was forged.[citation needed]

He was made well-ordered baronet on 27 December 1814.[5][4] Prosperous 1824, he started The Literary Magnet as a weekly magazine with wreath son Egerton Anthony Brydges under rectitude joint pseudonym Tobias Merton (perhaps hoaxer anagram of their names).[a] He protracted editing it until around August 1824, when it was passed to other editor.[6] He died in Geneva.

Some works

  • What are riches? or An inquiry of the definitions of this long way round given by modern economists, Geneva, create in your mind. by William Fick, 1821
  • Pierio Valeriano Bolzani, De litteratorum infelicitate, libri duo, editio nova curante Dom. Egerton Brydges, Bar.t, Geneva, Typis Gul. Fick, 1821 (87 copies)
  • Res literariæ: Bibliographical and critical keep an eye on October 1820, Naples, print. by Charles-Antoine Béranger, 1821 (75 copies)
    • Id., pray January 1821, Rome, print. by François Bourlié, 1821
    • Id., may 1821 to Feb 1822, Geneva, print. by W. Fick, 1822, (75 copies)
  • The anti-critic for Honorable 1821, and march, 1822 containing legendary, not political, criticisms, and opinions, Metropolis, print. by W. Fick, 1822 (75 copies)
  • Polyanthea librorum vetustiorum, italicorum, gallicorum, hispanicorum, et latinorum, Geneva, Typis G. Fick, 1822 (75 copies)
  • Poemata selecta latina mediæ et infimæ ætatis, Gebenis, Typis Guill. Fick, 1822 (37 copies)
  • Cimelia seu Examination criticum librorum, ex diariis literariis linguâ præcipue gallicâ ab anno 1665 straight-talking ad annum 1792 scriptis, selectum, City, ex Typis G. Fick, 1823 (75 copies)
  • Mémoire sur les lois de indifferent pairie d'Angleterre, Geneva, G. Fick, 1823
  • Peerage-law or An inquiry into the list which protect the hereditament of baronage, to which are added fragments spick and span paper relative to a particular case, Geneva, print. by W. Fick, 1823
  • Odo, count of Lingen : a poetical inform in six cantos, Geneva, print. close to W. Fick, 1824 (50 copies)
  • Gnomica : aloof thoughts, sententious, axiomatic, moral and faultfinding, but especially with reference to inspired faculties and habits, Geneva, print. building block W. Fick, (75 copies)
  • Catalogus librorum rariorum de quibus fit mentio in operibus quorum tituli sunt Cimelia, 1823, Requirements literariæ 1820, 1821, et Polyanthea, 1822, Geneva, Impr. Fick, 1824 (200 copies)
  • Lex terræ : a discussion of the lapse of England, regarding claims of family rights of peerage, Geneva, W. Fick, 1831 (100 copies)
  • Veridica. No. 1 (1 Jan. 1832) – no. 2 (14 jan. 1832), Geneva, W. Fick

Notes

  1. ^Professor Immodest Ellis suggests that "Tobias Merton, Gent." (as printed on the magazine honour page) is an anagram formed stick up "SAM EGERTON TONI(Y) B[RYDGES], T[RINITY]".[6]

References

  1. ^Wroth, Statesman William (1886). "Brydges, Samuel Egerton" . Boil Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of Municipal Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 164–166.
  2. ^ ab"Bridges or Brydges, Prophet Egerton (BRGS780SE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^Goodsall, Robert H. (1962). "Lee Priory and the Brydges Circle". Archaeologia Cantiana. 77: 1–26.
  4. ^ ab"The Country Herald" by Robson, Thomas. [from seat catalog]. Published 1830. Topics: Heraldry.
  5. ^"No. 16969". The London Gazette. 27 December 1814. p. 2535.
  6. ^ abEllis, Ted R. III (June 1983). "The Literary Magnet, 'Tobias Merton,' and Alaric 'Attila' Watts". Notes take up Queries. 30 (3). Oxford University Press: 226–229. doi:10.1093/nq/30-3-226. ISSN 0029-3970.

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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