Aird, Thomas
(male)
08/28/1802 - 04/25/1876
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Poet, essayist, and journalist; edited Edinburgh Weekly Journal; wrote The Old Batchelor in the Scottish Village (1845), Poetical Works (1848); contributed to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. See Boase I: 34, ODNB.
Alexander, Cecil Frances (Humphreys)
(female)
1818 - 10/12/1895
Irish
Hymn writer and poet on religious subjects; married William Alexander, the rector of Termonamongan in Derry, in 1850; wrote The Baron's Little Daughter and Other Tales (1848). See Boase IV: 72, ODNB.
Alison, Archibald
(male)
12/29/1792 - 05/23/1867
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Historian and lawyer; wrote at least 50 articles for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; noted high Tory, opposed to Parliamentary reform; wrote History of Europe during the French Revolution (1833-1842); attacked Malthus. See Boase I: 47, ODNB.
Arnould, Sir Joseph
(male)
11/12/1813 - 02/16/1886
English
Wadham College, Oxford
British judge in India and writer; wrote articles for the Daily News; wrote Law of Marine Insurance; promoted study of Mohammaden and Hindu law. See Boase IV: 175, ODNB.
Augustus, Frederick
(male)
08/16/1763 - 01/05/1827
English
University of Gottingen
Second son of King George III; Commander-in-Chief during Napoleonic wars.
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune
(male)
06/21/1813 - 08/04/1865
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Poet, professor of rhetoric at Edin. University; solicitor; contributed to Blackwood's Magazine from 1836 to 1865; wrote Firmilian (a poetic parody) in 1854, Norman Sinclair (a novel) in 1861. See Boase I: 115-6, ODNB.
Badham, Charles
(male)
04/17/1780 - 11/10/1845
English
University of Edinburgh; Pembroke College, Oxford
Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow; classical scholar; travelled extensively; translated Juvenal. See ODNB.
Barham, Richard Harris
(male)
12/06/1788 - 06/17/1845
English
Brasenose College, Oxford
Writer and cleric; contributed to John Bull, the Globe and Traveller, the Literary Gazette, and Blackwood's; advisor to Richard Bentley; wrote Ingolsdby Legends. See ODNB.
Barnard, Rev. Mordaunt
(male)
12/05/1795 - 10/29/1885
English
Christ's College, Cambridge
Rector of Preston Bagot and justice of the peace; wrote The Education of the Christian Minister (1821), A Translation of the Odyssey into English Blank Verse (1876).
Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
(male)
10/13/1797 - 04/22/1839
English
Oriel College, Oxford
Poet and playwright; first novel The Aylmers (1827) satirized friends in Bath; wrote farces for Olympic and other theaters; wrote many songs. See ODNB.
Belfast, Ferguson
(male)
unknown
Bell, George Hamilton
(male)
01/20/1794 - 04/19/1862
Scottish
M.D. Of Edinburgh; residency surgeon in Madras; wrote A Treatise on Diseases of the Liver (1833).
Bell, Jonathan Anderson
(male)
1809 - 02/28/1865
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Architect; secretary to the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland; wrote Poems (privately printed, 1865). See Boase I: 229-30, ODNB.
Blackie, John Stuart
(male)
07/28/1809 - 03/02/1895
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Professor of Greek at Edin. Univ.; wrote for Blackwood's Magazine and Foreign Quarterly Review; translated Goethe's Faust and dramas of Aeschylus; author of Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece and many other books. See Boase IV: 415-416, ODNB.
Blackwood, John
(male)
12/07/1818 - 10/29/1879
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Publisher; managed London branch of Blackwood 1840-45, headed firm from 1852; editor of Blackwood's Magazine from 1845 to death. See Boase I: 300, ODNB.
Blair, Alexander
(male)
09/26/1782 - 1878
English
Professor of literature, London University.
Blew, William John
(male)
04/13/1808 - 12/27/1894
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Cleric and classicist; translated Agamemnon (from Aeschylus) (1855); co-wrote The Church Hymn and Tune Book (1852); wrote Church Restoration: its Principles and Methods (1869). See Boase IV: 430, ODNB.
Bode, Rev. John Ernest
(male)
1816 - 10/06/1874
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Cleric, poet, and scholar; Rector of Westwell Oxon., Castle Camps, Cambridge; wrote Ballads from Herodotus (1853), Short occasional poems (1858), other works. See Boase I: 323, ODNB.
Bridges, Matthew
(male)
1800 - 1894
English
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
Roman Catholic priest; cleric at Babbicombe or Babbacombe; wrote History of the Roman Empire under Constantine the Great (1828), Babbicombe, or Visions of Memory with Other Poems (1842).
Brown, John
(male)
English
Corporal, Grenadier Guards; served at Balaclava.
