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- Brydges, Samuel Egerton
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- Brydges, Sir (Samuel) Egerton
- Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837
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Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818. Brydges was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and The King's School, Canterbury, and was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1780, though he did not take a degree. He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1787. He wrote some novels and poems, now forgotten, but rendered valuable service by his bibliographical publications, Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions of Old English Books (10 vols. 1805-1809), his editions of Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800) Arthur Collins's Peerage of England (1812), and of many rare Elizabethan authors. He was a founder member of the Roxburghe Club, the publishing club of wealthy bibliophiles. Brydges was made a baronet in 1814. He died at Geneva in 1818.
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VIAF ID: 27405359 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3809 Accessed June 12, 2014.