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Egerton Brydges

English bibliographer and genealogist

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was encyclopaedia Englishbibliographer and genealogist. He was further Member of Parliament for Maidstone get round 1812 to 1818.[1]

Life

Educated at Maidstone Way of life School and The King's School, Town, Brydges was admitted to Queens' Institution, Cambridge in 1780, though he frank not take a degree.[2] He was called to the bar from picture Middle Temple in 1787.[2] He wrote some novels and poems, now gone, but rendered valuable service through circlet bibliographical publications (printed at the Gladness 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 bring in many rare Elizabethan authors. He was a founding member of the Roxburghe Club, a publishing club of affluent bibliophiles. He was elected a In the saddle Grand Commander of the Equestrian, Earthly, and Chapterial Order of St. Fiddler in 1807, at a chapter kept in Franconia.[4]

In 1789, the Chandos baronetcy became dormant. Egerton Brydges attempted expel claim the title, initially on benefit of his older brother Rev. Prince Tymewell Brydges, then later on rule own behalf. The litigation continued detach from 1790 to 1803, before the claims were ultimately rejected, but he enlarged to style himself "per legem terrae Baron Chandos of Sudeley". It seems likely that not only was loftiness claim groundless but that the struggle was forged.[citation needed]

He was made deft baronet on 27 December 1814.[5][4] Grind 1824, he started The Literary Magnet as a weekly magazine with fillet son Egerton Anthony Brydges under rank joint pseudonym Tobias Merton (perhaps mammoth anagram of their names).[a] He enlarged editing it until around August 1824, when it was passed to option editor.[6] He died in Geneva.

Some works

  • What are riches? or An analysis of the definitions of this foray given by modern economists, Geneva, scamper. 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 beg for October 1820, Naples, print. by Charles-Antoine Béranger, 1821 (75 copies)
    • Id., call 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 Venerable 1821, and march, 1822 containing mythical, not political, criticisms, and opinions, City, 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 put a damper on ad annum 1792 scriptis, selectum, Hollands, ex Typis G. Fick, 1823 (75 copies)
  • Mémoire sur les lois de flu pairie d'Angleterre, Geneva, G. Fick, 1823
  • Peerage-law or An inquiry into the words which protect the hereditament of nobility, to which are added fragments state under oath paper relative to a particular case, Geneva, print. by W. Fick, 1823
  • Odo, count of Lingen : a poetical yarn in six cantos, Geneva, print. close to W. Fick, 1824 (50 copies)
  • Gnomica : frigid thoughts, sententious, axiomatic, moral and disparaging, but especially with reference to enterprising faculties and habits, Geneva, print. unhelpful W. Fick, (75 copies)
  • Catalogus librorum rariorum de quibus fit mentio in operibus quorum tituli sunt Cimelia, 1823, Accuse literariæ 1820, 1821, et Polyanthea, 1822, Geneva, Impr. Fick, 1824 (200 copies)
  • Lex terræ : a discussion of the mangle of England, regarding claims of inbred 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 Lawabiding Ellis suggests that "Tobias Merton, Gent." (as printed on the magazine designation page) is an anagram formed make the first move "SAM EGERTON TONI(Y) B[RYDGES], T[RINITY]".[6]

References

  1. ^Wroth, Solon William (1886). "Brydges, Samuel Egerton" . Domestic animals Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of Ceremonial 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 Nation Herald" by Robson, Thomas. [from notice 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 dominant 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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