Life
Author of The Guillotine; or, the Death of Louis XVI (Belfast, May 1793) - widely printed and sold in England, Scotland and Ireland incl. Dublin and Belfast; identit of author unknown and prob. English and unconnected with Ireland.
Cf., Massacre of the French King. View of la Guillotine : or the modern beheading machine, at Paris. By which the unfortunate Louis XVI. (late King of France) suffered on the scaffold, January 21st, 1793 ([[Dublin]: Published at the Dublin Museum, no. 9, Mary-street [1793]), 1 sheet. [copies in num. libs. incl. TCD]; Do. [another edn.] (London: printed at the Minerva Office, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and sold Wholesale at And Retail by every Bookseller, Stationer, &c. in England, Scotland and Ireland 1793), 1 sht., two columns within a black border].
References
William Smith Clarke, The Irish Stage in Country Towns 1720-1860 (Clarendon Press, 1965), p.290 - cites The Guillotine; or, the Death of Louis XVI (Belfast, May 1793). Clarke supplies the honorifics ‘Reverend Doctor‘ but no given name.
Notes
Namesake: A William Bambridge (1819-79), of Windsor, was a school-teacher who joined Bishop Selwyn on his mission to New Zealand and became a photographer regularly in use by the Royal family on his return to Windsor from c.1854. His work is held in the Nat. Portrait Gallery (London).
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