Robert Southey buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Parish Church in Cumbria. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1822. He was also a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Notes Citations Robert Southey Robert Southey ( or (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of Wordsworth and Coleridge, his verse still enjoys some popularity.
Robert Hancock (engraver) Wesley (1790), after J. Miller. About 1796, in Bristol, he drew small crayon portraits engraved by Richard Woodman for Joseph Cottle's "Reminiscences": of Charles Lamb, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These were purchased for the National Portrait Gallery in 1877. Hancock also engraved plates in Valentine Green's "History of Worcester", and the plates in a folio bible published by Pearson & Rollason of Birmingham. Attribution Robert Hancock (engraver) Robert Hancock (1730–1817) was an English engraver. Hancock was born in Staffordshire, studied under Simon François Ravenet, and was at first engaged as an engraver at the Battersea Enamel