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Richard Ryan (18 April 1797 – 20 October 1849)〔A letter written (above) records his correct date of birth, incorrectly listed elsewhere as 1796 (on his death certificate his age is listed as 53, but he was 52). Also listed correctly in ''Time's Telescope, 1825'' p. 91. Birth date of 18 April 1797 is also registered on Baptism records with St George's Hanover Square, Westminster, 10 September 1802.〕 was a British writer of Irish descent.〔His father Richard's obituary from The Gentleman's Magazine Mar 1819, p.286: "Mr. Richard Ryan was a native of Ireland..."〕 He was the son of Oxford Street, London bookseller and publisher Richard Ryan and was educated at St Paul's School, London. Ryan produced the first Irish biographical dictionary ''Biographia Hibernica, a Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland, from the earliest periods to the present time'' in 1819 and 1821. He was also a poet, writing for newspapers and publishing books on poetry, a biographer of poets and playwrights, an editor, a lyricist for popular music and a playwright of several plays in the West End of London. Richard Ryan lived in Camden Town, London, from 1819 until his death in 1849. ==Early life== Richard Ryan was the son of bookseller Richard Ryan (1750–1818) and Elizabeth Ryan (1759–1830).〔''Morning Post'', 20 February 1830: ''DIED at her house in Park-street, Camden-town, Mrs Ryan, aged 71, widow of Mr. Ryan, bookseller, and mother of Richard Ryan, author of several works in prose and poetry''.〕 He was born at their home in Oxford Street near the Pantheon, London. It was one of several locations on Oxford Street where his father ran a book-selling business for 34 years, from 1784 - 1818.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Bookhistory.blogspot.co.uk )〕 An 1840 street view of the buildings on Oxford Street (including the old numbering), can be seen online. Richard was his father's only child, but he had three older half brothers from his mother who was a widow living in Poland Street when she married his father in February 1796.〔Isaac, Joshua and Aaron Bryant are mentioned in the will of his mother Elizabeth.〕 Ryan attended Soho Academy 〔For more about Soho Academy visit http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols33-4/pp60-63〕 and St Paul's School. He initially worked as a bookseller with his father after leaving school but decided to close the bookshop in 1819, a year after his father died on 29 July 1818,〔''The Gentleman's Magazine'' Oct 1818, p.375 and Mar 1819, p.286: ''Mr. Richard Ryan was a native of Ireland, and kept a bookseller's shop in Dublin, but quitted it for this country; and resided, for upward of 35 years, in Oxford-street, carrying on a respectable business in the sale of second-hand books. He was a man of some humour, scrupulously exact in his dealings, and much esteemed by all who knew him.''〕 to focus on his writing. Many London booksellers in the early nineteenth century were book publishers. Richard's father had published extensive catalogues and books over the years and he must have assisted his father in the publication of these once he was old enough. In 1818 he published the third edition of ''An Essay on the Antiquities of the Irish Language'' by Charles Vallancey which had originally been published in 1772. He took the opportunity to add a catalogue section at the back of the book with more than 100 listings of ''Works relative to the History, Antiquities, and the Language of Ireland'' on sale in his bookshop.〔''An Essay on the Antiquities of the Irish Language'' third edition, 1818, p. 115-122.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Ryan (biographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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