Balbo, Count Cesare
(male)
11/21/1789 - 06/03/1853
Italian
Writer and statesman; prime minister of Sardinia.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Banfield, Thomas Collins
(male)
04/03/1802 - 11/23/1855
Irish
Political economist and civil servant. (In Wellesley Index sometimes represented as Thomas Charles Banfield.)
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bell, Robert
(male)
01/16/1800 - 04/12/1867
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Started Dublin Historical Society; edited the Atlas, the Morning Chronicle, and the Home News; wrote History of Russia (1838), Lives of the English Poets (1839), other works; wrote 3 5-act comedies. See Boase I: 231, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Downing, Charles Toogood
(male)
1810 - 1873
English
M.D.; member of the Royal College of Surgeons; published The fan-qui in China, in 1836-7 (1838).
Grattan, Thomas Colley
(male)
1791 - 07/04/1864
Irish
Proprietor of The Monthly Paris Review (1822-23); British consul to Massachusetts (1839-46); wrote Highways and byways (1823), History of the Netherlands (1830), Legends of the Rhine (1832), and many other works. See Boase I: 1210, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Lewes, George Henry
(male)
04/18/1817 - 11/30/1878
English
Critic, dramatist, author, editor, and partner of Mary Ann Evans; edited Fortnightly Review, literary editor of The Leader; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; author of biography of Robespierre, A biographical history of philosophy (1845-6), The life and works of Goethe (1855), and other works. See Boase II: 408-9, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall
(male)
04/21/1806 - 04/13/1863
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Barrister, poor law commissioner, M.P.; editor of Edinburgh Review 1852-1855; chancellor of exchequer, home secretary, secretary for war. Wrote essays on romance languages, government of dependencies, authority, Roman history, other subjects. See Boase II: 413, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Lloyd, Hannibal Evans
(male)
05/30/1770 - 07/14/1847
English
Philologist and translator; settled in Hamburg in 1800; returned to England in 1813 and worked for foreign office; wrote works on history and culture of European countries; wrote standard English grammar for German students, edited German-English dictionary; translated travel literature. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Mark, William
(male)
03/05/1782 - 01/13/1849
English
British Consul at Malaga 1824-1836. In Wellesley as "Mark, ----."
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Pote, Benjamin Edward
(male)
1795 - 1862
English
Editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review 1838-1840.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Taylor, Philip Meadows
(male)
09/25/1808 - 05/13/1876
English
Colonial administrator in India; wrote many works including The Confessions of a Thug (1839), Tippoo Sultaun (1840), Tara, a Mahratta tale (1863). See Boase III: 899-900, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Thackeray, William Makepeace
(male)
07/18/1811 - 12/24/1863
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Satirist, novelist, and essayist; most famous for Vanity Fair; wrote for Fraser's Magazine, Punch, and other periodicals; edited Cornhill Magazine. See Boase III: 917-918, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Venables, Georg Stovin
(male)
06/18/1810 - 10/06/1888
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Barrister; wrote extensively for The Saturday Review; wrote for the Times; wrote poems; said to be the original of George Warrington in Thackeray's Pendennis. See Boase III: 1085, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)