Samuel egerton brydges biography of donald


4add 38366, f 135!

Samuel egerton brydges biography of donald

  • Samuel egerton brydges biography of donald
  • 1 based on brydges’s autobiog (1834) and gent mag(1837), ii 534
  • 4add 38366, f 135
  • 2 oracle, 5 oct 1795; kent ao, harris mss c67/37/1
  • 3add 38252, ff 113, 117; 38253, ff 98-100

    • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brydges, Samuel Egerton

    ​BRYDGES, Sir SAMUEL EGERTON (1762–1837), editor of early English literature and genealogist, was born at the manor-house of Wootton, situated between Canterbury and Dover, on 30 Nov.

    1762, and was the second son of Edward Brydges (or Bridges) of Wootton, by Jemima, daughter of William Egerton, LL.D., prebendary of Canterbury and chancellor of Hereford, he was educated at Maidstone School, at the King's School, Canterbury, and (from October 1780 till Christmas 1782) at Queens' College, Cambridge.

    On leaving the university he was entered of the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in November 1787. He never, however, practised, and retired in 1792 to Denton Court, a seat which he had purchased near his birthplace in Kent.

    From his boyhood Brydges had had a passion for reading, and had sacrificed his degree at college by 'giving himself up to English poetry.' His first literary venture was made in March