- BLANCHARD, LAMAN
- a prolific periodical and play writer, born at Yarmouth; a man of a singularly buoyant spirit, crushed by calamities; died by suicide (1803-1845).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BLANCHARD, LAMAN
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