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Byrom, John
Byrom, John (1692–1763), had many varied literary, linguistic, religious, and scientific interests, and was from 1724 a fellow of the Royal Society; his varied acquaintance included Hartley, the Wesleys, J. Butler, and, notably, Law, of whom he left interesting accounts in his Private Journals and Literary Remains (1854–7). Byrom had Jacobite sympathies and was, like Law, a non-juror; he was the author of the ambiguously loyal toast, beginning ‘God bless the King! I mean the Faith's Defender…’ His Miscellaneous Poems (1773) include some curious versifications of Law's Serious Call and the well-known hymn ‘Christians, awake! Salute the happy morn’.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Byrom, John." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Byrom, John." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ByromJohn.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Byrom, John." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ByromJohn.html |
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John Byrom
John Byrom , 1692–1763, English shorthand expert and poet, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He devised an early shorthand system, which he taught in Manchester. Although he copyrighted his system in 1742, his book, The Universal English Shorthand, was not published until after his death. He was a great admirer of William Law, and much information about Law is found in Byrom's Private Journal and Literary Remains (1854–57). He wrote Seasonably Alarming and Humiliating Truths in a Metrical Version of Certain Select Passages Taken from the Works of William Law (1774) and other facilely rhyming, rather eccentric religious verse. |
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"John Byrom." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "John Byrom." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Byrom-Jo.html "John Byrom." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Byrom-Jo.html |
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedledum and Tweedledee originally names applied to the composers Bononcini (1670–1747) and Handel, in a 1725 satire by John Byrom (1692–1763), ‘Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.’
The nursery rhyme featuring Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and their agreement to ‘have a battle’, is recorded from the early 19th century, and they were later developed as two identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1872). |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-TweedledumandTweedledee.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-TweedledumandTweedledee.html |
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