Abdy, Maria Smith
(female)
02/25/1797 - 07/19/1867
English
A niece of the humorists James and Horace Smith; wrote for the annuals and for the New Monthly Magazine and the Metropolitan Magazine. See Boase I: 3, ODNB.
Adamson, James
(male)
1795 - 07/16/1874
Scottish
Son of a pastor, he became pastor of the Scottish Church at Capetown in 1828; contributed to the newspaper press and the philosophical journals of Edinburgh. See Cape Monthly Magazine, February 1875.
Addison, Charles Greenstreet
(male)
1812 - 02/19/1866
English
A barrister, he published Damascus and Palmyra: a Journey to the East (1838), The history of the knights templars (1842), A treatise on the law of contracts (1845-47). See Boase I: 22, ODNB.
Alexander, Gabriel
(male)
Scottish
Admitted to Scottish Bar, moved in London in 1831, wrote for periodical press, imprisoned for debt in 1833 or 1834. RLF # 789.
Alexander, William D. S.
(male)
English
He wrote The Hermit of the Pyrenées and other poems (1859), The Lonely Guiding a Legend of the Pryenean Mountains (1873); he claimed to be in the son of the claimant to the title Earl of Stirling [Humphrys Alexander].
Atkinson, C.S.
(male)
unknown
Baker, John
(male)
unknown
Banim, John
(male)
04/03/1798 - 08/30/1842
Irish
Born in Kilkenny, a novelist and playwright; supported Catholic emancipation; wrote Tales of the O'Hara Family with his brother Michael; contributed to many periodicals. See ODNB.
Barnard, F.
(unknown)
unknown
Baynes, Edward D.
(male)
English
British officer, contributed to The Keepsake of 1834; maybe the Edward D. Baynes who translated Ovid’s epistles (1818), wrote Childe Harold in the Shades (1819).
Beale, Ann
(female)
1831 - 04/17/1900
English
Writer; wrote Poems (1842), The Vale of the Towey (1844) and about 20 other novels; wrote for The Girl's Own Paper and The Quiver. See Boase IV: 321.
Benjamin, Park
(male)
08/14/1809 - 09/12/1864
American
Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Poet, journalist, editor, and founder of several newspapers; co-founder of The Evening Tattler.
Bennett, William Cox
(male)
10/14/1820 - 03/04/1895
English
Supported educational programs, wrote for newspapers, and songwriter; on staff of the Weekly Dispatch; wrote The Worn Wedding-Ring and other Poems (1861), Baby May: Home Poems and Ballads (1875), and other volumes of poetry. See Boase IV: 363, ODNB.
Bickersteth, Edward Henry
(male)
01/25/1825 - 05/16/1906
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Bishop of Exeter 1885-1900; vicar of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells; active in Church Missionary Society; hymn writer and poet; wrote a long blank verse poem, Yesterday, To-Day, and for Ever (1866); wrote Practical and Explanatory Commentary on the New Testament (1864). See ODNB.
Birch, William John
(male)
01/04/1811 - 1863
English
Balliol College, Oxford
Barrister; wrote The Real and the Ideal (1840), An Inquiry into Shakespeare (1848), religious books. See Boase IV: 405.
Black, Horace
(male)
unknown
Bourne, John Gervas Hutchinson
(male)
1804 - 11/21/1845
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Barrister and scholar; associated with reformers; published The Exile of Idria (1833), The picture, and the prosperous man (1835), and a translation of Beranger’s songs (1837). Bourne immigrated to Newfoundland in 1838. See Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Bowles, William Lisle
(male)
09/24/1762 - 04/07/1850
English
Trinity College, Oxford
Priest, poet, and critic; vicar of Chicklade in Wiltshire; chaplain to the Pronce Regent; published Fourteen Sonnets (1789), The Missionary (1813), other poetic works; published edition of Alexander Pope's works in 1806; also known as antiquary. See ODNB.
Boyle, Mary Louisa
(female)
10/12/1810 - 04/07/1890
Irish
Writer known for her literary friendships with Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, and the Carlyles; wrote two novels, The State Prisoner (1837) and The Forester (1839); wrote poems and plays; her memoir, Her Book, was published posthumously. See Boase IV: 472-3, ODNB.
Brenton, Edward Pelham
(male)
07/20/1774 - 04/13/1839
English
A naval officer and naval historian, published Naval History of Great Britain from the Year 1783 to 1822 (1823); promoted temperance societies. See ODNB.
