Authority Cited: Oldham’s Life
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BKG Bio-tweet: [Not yet identified] Author of the Oldham Memoirs defends Oldham against Wood's entry in Athenae Oxonienses
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)[BKG Note; one Oldhams' Life cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. I had first thought that the latinist quotation was an inexact quote form the first (Shiels) title below, but have now located the exact quote in the 1722 edition of Oldham's Works. See last paragraph of the image below. See also Oldham.]
Author name and dates: [Not yet identified]
BKG Bio-tweet: [Not yet identified] Author of the Oldham Memoirs defends Oldham against Wood's entry in Athenae Oxonienses
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)[BKG Note; one Oldhams' Life cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. I had first thought that the latinist quotation was an inexact quote form the first (Shiels) title below, but have now located the exact quote in the 1722 edition of Oldham's Works. See last paragraph of the image below. See also Oldham.]
- [Robert Shiels] Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (Volume 2) (1753) p. 337 “He was soon observed to be a good latin scholar”
- BKG Bio-tweet for Shiels: Compiler; Dict. Amanuensis; poet; research, with SJ help, for Lives of Poets of GB & Ireland, 1753, pub. under Cibber’s name
- The works of Mr. John Oldham, together with his remains. In two volumes. To this edition are added, memoirs of his life, and explanatory notes ... Adorned with cuts, 1722, London: printed by J. Bettenham for D. Brown, without Temple Bar; B. and S. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate; G. Strahan over against the Royal Exchange; S. Ballard in Little Britiain; W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple Bar, Vol.1; latinist (added in 1773 Dict.: "Oldham was considered as a good latinist.")
