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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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).
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Blair, Alexander
(male)
09/26/1782 - 1878
English
Professor of literature, London University.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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).
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Brown, John
(male)
English
Corporal, Grenadier Guards; served at Balaclava.