Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784
Other forms of name
Pilkington, M. (Matthew), 1701-1784
nnaa Pilkington, Matthew, 1700?-1784
Date of birth
1701
Date of death
1784
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 26938896
Wikidata: Q17048572
Library of congress: nr 93031010
Uk: tb026690
Sources of Information
  • His The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters, 1770:t.p. (Rev. M. Pilkington)
  • BM(Pilkington, Matthew, Vicar of Donabate, Dublin)
  • DNB(Pilkington, Matthew, 1700?-1784)
  • Crone, J.S. Concise dictionary of Irish biography, 1928(Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784)
  • LC in RLIN, 08-16-93(hdg.: Pilkington, Matthew, 1700?-1784, ed.)

Wikipedia description:

Matthew Pilkington (1701–1774), Church of Ireland priest, writer, and art historian, was the author of a standard text on painters that became known as Pilkington's Dictionary. His first wife was the poet and memoirist Laetitia Pilkington and their second son was the singer and writer John Carteret Pilkington.

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