Biographical Sketches of Bath Celebrities, ancient and modern, with some fragments of local history

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BATH CELEBRITIES. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BATH CELEBRITIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN, WITH SOME FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. By JEROM MURCH, President of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, And Vice-President of the Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Society. " For sluggard's brow the laurel never grows ; Eenown is not the child of indolent repose." Thomson's Castle of Indolence. LONDON: Isaac Pitman & Sons. BATH : William Lewis & Son, MDCCCXCIII. TO THE HALLOWED MEMORY OF ONE WHO WAS MY BELOVED COUNSELLOR THROUGH SIXTY-TWO YEARS, AND WHO AIDED ME IN REVISING THE EARLIER PAGES OF THIS ROOK, IT IS NOW MOST GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED, BATH CELEBRITIES. Chapter, I. The Early British Period, The Roman Period. II. III. IV. The Saxon Period. The Norman Period.

V. The Early Mayors of Bath. VI. Sir John Harington and Bishop Montague. William Prynne. VII. VIII. Dr. Guidott and His Contemporaries. Beau Nash. IX, X Ralph Allen. XL John Palmer. Part 1. The Same. Part 2. XII. XIIL Physicians of the Two Last Centuries. Part 1 The Same. Part 2. XIV. XV. Dr. Henry Harington. XVI. Sir W. Herschel and Caroline Herschel. Dr. W. Smith and Charles Moore. The Two Woods, Gainsborough and Hoare. Thomas Barker and Benjamin Barker. Four Divines : Hales, Carte, Jay and Kemble, Bishop Baines and Bishop Clifford. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. XXIV. Archbishop Magee. Anstey, Rev. R. Warner and Rev. J. Hunter. General Sir William Napier. Walter Savage Landor. Part 1. The Same. Part 2. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. XXVIII. William Beckford. Part 1. The Same. Part 2. Miss Linley. Mrs. Siddons. XXIX.