Bligh

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2.4.1810 dine at Tipper's, Cumberland, Bligh, Dr & mr Davis,  H Robinson, Crowe & J Richter / 18.4.1810 Curran, Cumberland, Wolcot, Bligh & T(homas) T(urner) dine

Bligh may have been Richard Bligh DNB 1780-1838 equity draftsman (24 Old-buildings Lincolns-inn 1811 Holdens) & legal reporter, about whom the DNB says very little. Richard Cumberland's London Review was published by Samuel Tipper and four quarterly issues of it appeared in 1809. Henry Crabb Robinson and G W Crowe who were also present at Tipper's wrote for it. However in one advert for the Review Bligh was named William Bligh, reviewing Newenham on the Political, Commercial &c State of Ireland. This could hardly have been William Bligh DNB 1754-1817 as he would have been in New South Wales in 1810.