Samuel lover, died

July 6th , 1868

Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 – 6 July 1868), also known as “Ben Trovato” (“well invented”), was an Irish songwriter, composer and novelist and a portrait painter, chiefly in miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert.

Died on 6 July 1868

Lover died on 6 July 1868 in Saint Helier, Jersey. A memorial in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin marks his achievements: “Poet, painter, novelist and composer, who, in the exercise of a genius as distinguished in its versatility as in its power, by his pen and pencil illustrated so happily the characteristics of the peasantry of his country that his name will ever be honourably identified with Ireland

Selected Writings

  • Songs and Legends of the Irish People (1831)
  • Legends and Stories of Ireland (London: - - - Richard Edward King, n.d. [1834])
  • Rory O’More: A National Romance. Novel (London: R. Bentley, 1837; repr. London: F. Warne & Co., 1879)
  • Songs and Ballads (London: Chapman and Hall, 1839)
  • Handy Andy. A Tale of Irish Life (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1841)
  • Treasure Trove/He Would Be a Gentleman

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