Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (born November 30, 1762, Wootton, Kent, England—died September 8, 1837, Geneva, Switzerland) was an English writer and genealogist, chiefly important as the editor of rare Elizabethan and 17th-century texts, notably the 17th-century writer Edward Phillips’s critical miscellany Theatrum Poetarum (1800; “Theatre of Poets”) and Robert Greene’s autobiographical pamphlet Greenes Groatsworth of Witte… (1813). He also published some significant bibliographical work, including Censura Literaria (1805–09) and Restituta; or, Titles, Extracts,...