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November 14, 1795 - marries Edith Fricker
September 1803 - Moves to Greta Hall, Keswick
1813 - appointed poet laureate
June 5, 1839 - marries Caroline Bowles
March 21, 1843 - buried at Crosthwaite Churchyard, Keswick (http://www.instinct-training.co.uk/ti/kes/chk1.htm)
Aunt was Elizabeth Tyler
Uncle was Herbert Hill
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Robert SOUTHEY, English poet and writer of prose, Poet Laureate of England 1813-43.
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BORN: Bristol, England 12th Aug 1774 on Wine Street just before half-past eight in the morning.
Baptized:
DIED: Grasmere, Cumbria, England 21st Mar 1843
Buried: St. Kentigern's Churchyard, Braintree, Essex, England (sic)
Robert Southey is actually burried at St Kentigern's Church, Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, Cumbria, UK
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ANCESTORS:
1. Robert SOUTHEY (FRICKER, BOWLES) 1774 - 18432. Robert SOUTHEY + 1792
SIBLINGS:
1.Tom SOUTHEY ante 1788 - 1837 2.Edward SOUTHEY 1788 - 1847 3.Henry SOUTHEY post 1788 - post 1839
MARRIAGES:
1.1795 Edith FRICKER (SOUTHEY) c. 1774 - 1837 2.1839 Caroline Anne BOWLES (SOUTHEY) 1786 - 1859
DESCENDANTS: [ Options ]
a Edith FRICKER (SOUTHEY) c. 1774 - 1837
1. Margaret SOUTHEY + c. 1803
2. Kate SOUTHEY post 1804 - post 1837
3. Emma SOUTHEY * post 1804
4. Edith May SOUTHEY (WARTER) 1804 - post 1843 ...
5. Herbert SOUTHEY c. 1805 - 1815
6. Bertha SOUTHEY (HILL) c. 1809 - post 1839
7. Isabel SOUTHEY c. 1812 - c. 1826
8. Rev. Robert SOUTHEY * c. 1816
9. Cuthbert SOUTHEY * 1819 ...
KEIGHTLEY (Thomas) to (MINIATURE BOOK)
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Robert Southey's copy, inscribed by Wordsworth to his Grandson
49. KEIGHTLEY (Thomas): The CRUSADERS; or Scenes, Events and Characters from the Times of the Crusades. London: Samuel Bentley for John W Parker, 1833. Ten page woodcuts illustrating views of the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Antioch, Cedars of Lebanon, Bethlehem, Tomb of the Kings, Pool of Siloam, Bethany and the Dead Sea, Church of Holy Sepulchre, Sidon, Joppa. Small 8vo, viii 378pp + (6) advert, first gathering sprung and repaired at inner joint of half-title and front free endpaper (small discolouration); original green textured cloth with gilt-title on spine.
$6,000
First edition (? or pre-publication trial version): apparently known chiefly as a two-volume work issued in 1834; no copy of this 1833 printing is recorded in RLIN, EUREKA or the biographical DNB . Presentation copy from Keightley, inscribed at the top of the half-title: "To Robt Southey Esq from the Author", below which follows another inscription "To Henry Curwen Wordsworth from his affectionate Grandfather Wm Wordsworth" with a second note in the poet's handwriting below "Bought at Gretna Hall 1843" (the date of the estate sale of Southey's library). Alongside this last inscription is pasted a small sheet of paper with an ink salutation initialed in Southey's hand
Wordsworth took a strong interest in his grandchildren and their education in his latter years. This wonderful association copy from the library of two Poet Laureates also reflects his increasing belief in the important role of religious instruction and his abhorrence of purely secular education. It is published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The book's author Thomas Keightley is best remembered for his Fairy Mythology (1828).
§ This volume remained in the Wordsworth family until the death of the Poet's great grand-daughter Julia Curwen (1948), when it was purchased by a Lake District private collector.
Robert Southey's landlord at Greta Hall was William Jackson who was the brother-in-law of the Wordsworths' own landlord, John Benson. Also at Greta Hall was Mrs. Mary Wilson "Wilsy" who was the daughter of a midwife, who at the end of the eighteenth century practically did the work of a doctor and a village nurse combined. ... There was neither surgeon nor apothecary nearer than Cockermouth. Mrs. Wilson (who lived till 1820) became the devoted servant of the Southeys as well as of the Coleridges and must have played a large part in the education of their children." source Greta Hall by H. W. Howe, p. 24. William Jackson died in 1809.
Poet Laureates
In 1616 Ben Jonson was named England's first poet laureate; however, the title did not become an official royal office until 1668, when John Dryden assumed the honored post. Since that time, the office has been awarded for life. The poet laureate is responsible for composing poems for court and national occasions. At the time of each laureate's death, it is the duty of the prime minister to nominate successors from which the reigning sovereign will choose. It is the Lord Chamberlain who appoints the poet laureate by issuing a warrant to the laureate-elect. The life appointment is always announced in the London Gazette.
Official English Poet Laureates
Laureateship Poet Birth - Death Dates
1668-88 John Dryden 1631-1700
1689-92 Thomas Shadwell 1643?-92
1692-1715 Nahum Tate 1652-1715
1715-18 Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718
1718-30 Laurence Eusden 1688-1730
1730-57 Colley Cibber 1671-1757
1757-85 William Whitehead 1715-85*
1785-90 Thomas Warton 1728-90
1790-1813 Henry James Pye 1745-1813
1813-43 Robert Southey 1774-1843
1843-50 William Wordsworth 1770-1850
1850-92 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-92**
1896-1913 Alfred Austin 1835-1913
1913-30 Robert Bridges 1844-1930
1930-67 John Masefield 1878-1967
1968-72 Cecil Day-Lewis 1904-72
1972-84 Sir John Betjeman 1906-84
1984- Ted Hughes (b. 1930)
* The 1757 appointment was declined by Thomas Gray.
** The 1850 appointment was declined by Samuel Rogers.
Southey, Robert (1774-1843), English poet, generally considered a member of the romantic movement and one of the Lake Poets. He was born in Bristol. While traveling in Portugal, he completed his long poem Thalaba the Destroyer (12 volumes, 1801). In 1803 he and his wife went to live with the family of his good friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Greta Hall in Keswick, Cumberland, England. Ten years later, Southey was appointed poet laureate. His works include narrative poems such as The Curse of Kehama (1810) and Life of Nelson (1813). In 1821 Southey published A Vision of Judgement; in the preface to this poem, Southey attacked the works of Lord Byron, who retaliated with a parody of the poem in 1822.
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ROBERT SOUTHEY
Sex: M
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Birth: 12 Aug 1774 Bristol, Gloucester, England
Parents:
Father: ROBERT SOUTHEY
Mother: MARGARET HILL
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