John Baker Holroyd first Earl of Sheffield

Standard Name: Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd,,, first Earl of

Used Form: Lord Sheffield

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Between 1788 and 1792

The historian Edward Gibbon composed no less than six drafts of his autobiography, which remained unpublished during his lifetime.

Pocock, John Greville Agard. “The Ironist”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 13-17.

31 March 1796

Edward Gibbon 's Miscellaneous Works, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings were posthumously published by his literary executor, Lord Sheffield .

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Texts

Gibbon, Edward. The Miscellaneous Works, of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. Editor Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, first Earl of, A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1796.