Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

Beresford, Richard (1755-98: WBIS)

He was born near Charleston SC, and educated in Charleston and England. He studied law at the Middle Temple in London, was admitted to the bar in 1773, and practised in Charleston. He became a planter. An officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, he was captured at the fall of Charleston in 1780 but was exchanged a year later. He held various political offices and was a member of the Continental Congress of 1783-4. He wrote about politics and literature, and established a magazine, the Vigil, in the last year of his life. (Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1961 [Washington DC 1961]; ancestry.com 25 Nov. 2017) HJ

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