Richard Ryan (biographer)

Richard Ryan (1796-1849) was an English biographer.

Ryan was son of Richard Ryan, a bookseller in Camden Town, who died before 1830, ["Gent. Mag." 1830, pt. i.] Ryan seems to have followed the business of a bookseller, but found time to write several interesting books, a few plays, and some songs which were set to music by eminent composers. His plays—"Everybody's Husband", a comic drama in one act ; "Quite at Home", a comic entertainment in one act ; and "Le Pauvre Jacques", a vaudeville in one act, from the French—are printed in J. Cumberland's ' Acting Plays,' 1825.

Besides the works mentioned, he published:
*"Eight Ballads on the Superstitions of the Irish Peasantry", 8vo, London, 1822.
*"Biographia Hibernica, a Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland, from the earliest periods to the present time", 2 vols. STO. London, 1819-21.
*'Poems on Sacred Subjects", Sic., 8vo, London, 1824.
*"Dramatic Table Talk, or Scenes, Situations, and Adventures, serious and comic, in Theatrical History and Biography, with engravings", 3 vols, limo, London, 1825.
*"Poetry and Poets, being a Collection of the choicest Anecdotes relative to the Poets of every age and nation, illustrated by engravings", 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1826.

References

:"This article contains material from the "The Dictionary of National Biography" by Sidney Lee (1909), a work in the public domain.

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