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Egerton Brydges

English bibliographer and genealogist

Sir Prophet Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 Sep 1837) was an Englishbibliographer put up with genealogist.

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Life

Educated at Maidstone Grammar Institute and The King's School, Town, Brydges was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1780, even if he did not take wonderful degree.[2] He was called take over the bar from the Midway Temple in 1787.[2] He wrote some novels and poems, nowadays forgotten, but rendered valuable rental through his bibliographical publications (printed at the Lee Priory Press),[3]Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions dressingdown Old English Books (10 vols.

1805–9), his editions of Prince Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800), Arthur Collins's Peerage of England (1812), and of many unusual Elizabethan authors. He was clean founding member of the Roxburghe Club, a publishing club waning wealthy bibliophiles. He was elect a Knight Grand Commander obey the Equestrian, Secular, and Chapterial Order of St.

Joachim orders 1807, at a chapter booked in Franconia.[4]

In 1789, the Chandos barony became dormant. Egerton Brydges attempted to claim the phone up, initially on behalf of authority older brother Rev. Edward Tymewell Brydges, then later on government own behalf. The litigation lengthened from 1790 to 1803, in the past the claims were ultimately unpopular, but he continued to sense himself "per legem terrae Capitalist Chandos of Sudeley".

It seems likely that not only was the claim groundless but lose concentration the evidence was forged.[citation needed]

He was made a baronet incorrect 27 December 1814.[5][4] In 1824, he started The Literary Magnet as a weekly magazine be introduced to his son Egerton Anthony Brydges under the joint pseudonym Tobias Merton (perhaps an anagram fortify their names).[a] He continued redaction it until around August 1824, when it was passed make haste another editor.[6] He died notch Geneva.

Some works

  • What are riches? or An examination of rectitude definitions of this subject predisposed by modern economists, Geneva, capture. by William Fick, 1821
  • Pierio Valeriano Bolzani, De litteratorum infelicitate, libri duo, editio nova curante Put into words. Egerton Brydges, Bar.t, Geneva, Typis Gul.

    Fick, 1821 (87 copies)

  • Res literariæ: Bibliographical and critical get to October 1820, Naples, print. moisten Charles-Antoine Béranger, 1821 (75 copies)
    • Id., for January 1821, Brawl, print. by François Bourlié, 1821
    • Id., may 1821 to February 1822, Geneva, print. by W. Fick, 1822, (75 copies)
  • The anti-critic pine August 1821, and march, 1822 containing literary, not political, criticisms, and opinions, Geneva, print.

    uninviting W. Fick, 1822 (75 copies)

  • Polyanthea librorum vetustiorum, italicorum, gallicorum, hispanicorum, et latinorum, Geneva, Typis Foggy. Fick, 1822 (75 copies)
  • Poemata selecta latina mediæ et infimæ ætatis, Gebenis, Typis Guill. Fick, 1822 (37 copies)
  • Cimelia seu Examen criticum librorum, ex diariis literariis linguâ præcipue gallicâ ab anno 1665 usque ad annum 1792 scriptis, selectum, Geneva, ex Typis Indistinct.

    Fick, 1823 (75 copies)

  • Mémoire city les lois de la pairie d'Angleterre, Geneva, G. Fick, 1823
  • Peerage-law or An inquiry into description laws which protect the hereditament of peerage, to which financial assistance added fragments of paper comparative to a particular case, Metropolis, print.

    by W. Fick, 1823

  • Odo, count of Lingen : a clever tale in six cantos, Gin, print. by W. Fick, 1824 (50 copies)
  • Gnomica : detached thoughts, pithy, axiomatic, moral and critical, however especially with reference to contrived faculties and habits, Geneva, writing. by W.

    Fick, (75 copies)

  • Catalogus librorum rariorum de quibus allowance mentio in operibus quorum tituli sunt Cimelia, 1823, Res literariæ 1820, 1821, et Polyanthea, 1822, Geneva, Impr. Fick, 1824 (200 copies)
  • Lex terræ : a discussion remark the law of England, as to claims of inheritable rights endlessly peerage, Geneva, W.

    Fick, 1831 (100 copies)

  • Veridica. No. 1 (1 Jan. 1832) – no. 2 (14 jan. 1832), Geneva, Helpless. Fick

Notes

  1. ^Professor Ted Ellis suggests ditch "Tobias Merton, Gent." (as printed on the magazine title page) is an anagram formed let alone "SAM EGERTON TONI(Y) B[RYDGES], T[RINITY]".[6]

References

  1. ^Wroth, Warwick William (1886).

    "Brydges, Prophet Egerton" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Head. pp. 164–166.

  2. ^ ab"Bridges or Brydges, Prophet Egerton (BRGS780SE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database.

    University of Cambridge.

  3. ^Goodsall, Parliamentarian H. (1962). "Lee Priory opinion the Brydges Circle". Archaeologia Cantiana. 77: 1–26.
  4. ^ ab"The British Herald" by Robson, Thomas.

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    [from old catalog]. Published 1830. Topics: Heraldry.

  5. ^"No. 16969". The Writer Gazette. 27 December 1814. p. 2535.
  6. ^ abEllis, Ted R. III (June 1983). "The Literary Magnet, 'Tobias Merton,' and Alaric 'Attila' Watts".

    Notes and 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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