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SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 811 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835) , known as " Conversation
Sharp
 ," was born in
Newfoundland
  in 1759, the son of a British officer in garrison there. He was for many years in business in London, and amassed a large fortune. He was the host of leading literary and political men at his houses in Park Lane and near Dorking. Johnson,
Burke
 , Rogers, Hallam, Grattan, Sydney
Smith
 , James Mill, Wordsworth and Coleridge were among his many friends. From r8o6 to 1812 he was M.P. for Castle Rising, and subsequently he represented Portarlingtonand Ilchester. He was the author of a volume of Letters and Essays in
Prose
  and Verse (1834), which the Quarterly Review declared to be remarkable for " wisdom, wit, knowledge of the world and sound ctiticism."
Sharp
  died at Dorchester on the 3oth of March 1835.


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