Richard Ryan (biographer)

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Richard Ryan (1796-1849) was an English biographer.

Ryan was son of Richard Ryan, a bookseller in Camden Town, who died before 1830,^[1] Ryan seems to have followed the business of a bookseller, but found time to write several interesting books, a few plays, and some songs which were set to music by eminent composers. His plays—Everybody's Husband, a comic drama in one act ; Quite at Home, a comic entertainment in one act ; and Le Pauvre Jacques, a vaudeville in one act, from the French—are printed in J. Cumberland's ' Acting Plays,' 1825.

Besides the works mentioned, he published:

Eight Ballads on the Superstitions of the Irish Peasantry, 8vo, London, 1822.
Biographia Hibernica, a Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland, from the earliest periods to the present time, 2 vols. STO. London, 1819-21.
'Poems on Sacred Subjects, Sic., 8vo, London, 1824.
Dramatic Table Talk, or Scenes, Situations, and Adventures, serious and comic, in Theatrical History and Biography, with engravings, 3 vols, limo, London, 1825.
Poetry and Poets, being a Collection of the choicest Anecdotes relative to the Poets of every age and nation, illustrated by engravings, 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1826.