Samuel egerton brydges biography of christopher columbus

2. Oracle, 5 Oct. 1795; Kent AO, Harris mss C67/37/1.

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November – 8 September ) was an English bibliographer and genealogist.


samuel egerton brydges biography of christopher columbus

Samuel egerton brydges biography of christopher columbus

BRYDGES, Sir SAMUEL EGERTON (–), editor of early English literature and genealogist, was born at the manor-house of Wootton, situated between Canterbury and .

1. Based on Brydges’s Autobiog. (1834) and Gent. Mag.(1837), ii. 534.

The autobiography, times, opinions and contemporaries of sir Egerton Brydges.


3.Add. 38252, ff. 113, 117; 38253, ff. 98-100.
Although Sir Egerton Brydges’ works contain flashes of insight into correct deductions, practical as well as theoretical, they are a good deal disfigured by his want of .