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BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON (1762-1837)

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BRYDGES, See also:SIR See also:SAMUEL See also:EGERTON (1762-1837) , See also:English genealogist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:November 1762. He studied at Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and was entered at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1782, being called to the See also:bar in 1787. In 1789 he persuaded his See also:elder See also:brother that their See also:family were the heirs to the See also:barony of See also:Chandos, being descended from a. younger See also:branch of the Brydges who first held the See also:title. The See also:case was tried and lost, but Brydges never gave up his claim, and used to sign himself Per legem terrae B. C. of S. (i.e. See also:Baron Chandos of Sudeley). He re-edited See also:Collins's See also:Peerage, inserting a statement about his supposed right. In 1814 he was made a See also:baronet, and in 1818 he See also:left See also:England. He died at See also:Geneva on the 8th of See also:September 1837. Sir Egerton was a most prolific author; he is said to have written 2000 sonnets in one See also:year. His numerous See also:works include Poems (1785); Censura Literaria (1805-1809); The See also:British Bibliographer (4 vols., 1810-1814), with J.

Haslewood; Restituta (4 vols., 1814-1816), containing accounts of old books; and Autobiography, Times, Opinions and Contemporaries of Sir S. E. Brydges (1834). In 1813 Brydges began to See also:

supply material to a private See also:printing See also:press established at See also:Lee Priory, See also:Kent, by a compositor and a pressman, who were to receive any profits which might arise from the See also:sale of the works published. In this way Brydges published various Elizabethan texts, at considerable expense to himself, which increased the services he had already rendered to the study of Elizabethan literature by his See also:bibliographical works. For a full See also:list of his works see W. T. See also:Lowndes, Bibliographer's See also:Manual (ed. H. G. See also:Bohn, 1857-1864).

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