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SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES (1762-1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 699 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:SAMUEL See also:EGERTON See also:BRYDGES (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 See also: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 . See also:Sir See also: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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