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Egerton Brydges
English bibliographer and genealogist
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was an Englishbibliographer and genealogist. He was also Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818.[1]
Life
[edit]Educated at Maidstone Grammar School and The King's School, Canterbury, Brydges was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1780, though he did not take a degree.[2] He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1787.[2] He wrote some novels and poems, now forgotten, but rendered valuable service through his bibliographical publications (printed at the Lee Priory Press),[3]Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions of Old English Books (10 vols. 1805–9), his editions of Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800), Arthur Collins's Peerage of England (1812), and of many rare Elizabethan authors. He was a founding member of the Roxburghe Club, a publishing club of wealthy bibliophiles. He was elected a Knight Grand Commander of the Equestrian, Secular, and Chapterial Order of St. Joachim in 1807, at a chapter held in Franconia.[4]
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Brydges, Sir Egerton, 1762-1837
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Brydges, Sir Egerton, 1762-1837
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1762-1837
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Samuel Egerton Brydges,
"a man to all the book tribe dear,"
was the son of Edward Brydges of Wootton Court, where he was born in 1762. He was educated at the Grammar School at Maidstone, at King's School, Cambridge, and at Queen's College in that University. He was called to the bar in 1787, but never applied himself with zeal to that profession. In 1789 he purchased the estate of Denton in his native county, but, becoming embarrassed, he removed to Lee Priory, near Canterbury. In 1790 he preferred a claim to the barony of Chandos, but the claim was dis-allowed by the House of Lords, though Sir Egerton never gave it up. He continued through life to sign himself "per legem terræ B. C. of S." (Baron Chandos of Sudeley). From the period of the rejection of his claim the Press teemed with writings bearing upon the decision. For the convenience of publication he set up a private press at Lee Priory, from which almost innumerable works proceeded.' Amongst other compositions he is said to have produced 2000 sonnets in one year. In 1812 he was elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone, and continued a Member till 1818, when he retired to the Continent, where he resided till his death at Geneva in 1837.