Samuel Lover [SEP] date of death
Samuel Lover
Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 – 6 July 1868), also known as "Ben Trovato" ("well invented"), was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert.
Life.
Lover was born at number 60 Grafton Street, Dublin and went to school at Samuel Whyte's at 79 Grafton Street, now home to Bewley's Café. By 1830 he was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and
The Stories of Johnny Shemisin") (no Date), Ulster Council of the Gaelic League
- Leamy, Edmund. (1906)."Irish Fairy Tales" Dublin: M.A. Gill & Son. Ltd, Retrieved from University of Toronto Library via Archive.org 6 November 2017
- Lover, Samuel (1831)."Legends and Stories of Ireland vol. 1" Dublin: W.F. Wakeman, Retrieved from University of Pittsburgh Library via Archive.org 6 November 2017
- Lover, Samuel (1831)."Legends and Stories of Ireland vol. 2" London: Baldwin and Cradock