Samuel Egerton Brydges

Samuel Egerton Brydges

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name = Sir Samuel Brydges, Bt


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birthplace = Wootton, Kent
deathdate = death date and age|1837|9|8|1762|11|30|mf=y
deathplace = Geneva
occupation = bibliographer, genealogist, Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818
nationality = English
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Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818.

He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and Middle Temple, being called to the Bar in 1787. He wrote some novels and poems, now forgotten, but rendered valuable service by his bibliographical publications, "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 of many rare Elizabethan authors. He was a founder member of the Roxburghe Club, the publishing club of wealthy bibliophiles.

In 1789, the Chandos barony became dormant.Egerton Brydges attempted to claim the title, initially on behalf on his older brotherRevd Edward Tymewell Brydges and then on his own behalf. The litigation lasted from 1790 to 1803 before the claims were rejected, but he continued to style himself "per legem terrae Baron Chandos of Sudeley". It seems likely that not only was the claim groundless but that the evidence was forged.

He was made a baronet in 1814. He died at Geneva.

References

*A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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* J. Robins, "The British Magazine, or Miscellany of Polite Literature", London, 1823. Pp.145-146.
* "The Gentleman's Magazine" 162 (1837) pp.534-539.

External links

* Lee Priory Press [http://www.presscom.co.uk/leepriory1.html]


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