Adams, Henry Gardiner
(male)
1811 - 05/01/1881
English
Druggist, chemist, naturalist, and author; secretary of Mechanics Institute of Chatham; wrote books about flowers, birds and butterflies; wrote juvenile literature under the pseudonym nemo; edited collections of poetical quotations. See Boase IV: 32.
Burges, George
(male)
1786 - 01/11/1864
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Inventor, entrepreneur, and writer; wrote classical works; expert on Greek literature; constructed aerial conveyances; a prominent Tory; gave lectures on literature. See Boase I: 477, ODNB.
Christmas, Henry
(male)
1811 - 03/11/1868
English
St. John's College, Cambridge
Traveller, theologian, antiquarian, numismatist, and editor; visited Spain and Portugal extensively in 1842; member of the Royal Academy of Archaeology of Madrid; visited Greece and Turkey in 1850; translated poetry of Lamartine; editor of the Church of England Quarterly Review 1840-43, 1854-58; friend of Dr. Worthington. See Boase I: 617, ODNB.
Cox, John Edmund
(male)
10/09/1812 - 10/27/1890
English
All Souls College, Oxford
Cleric and author; edited the Memoir of Sarah Martin, and wrote Principles of the Reformation, Life of Cranmer, Life of Luther, Protestantism Contrasted with Romanism, other works; is noted in Men of the Times to have been an extensive contributor to the North British and Church of England Quarterly Reviews. See Boase IV: 763-4.
Doran, John
(male)
03/11/1807 - 01/25/1878
English
University of Marburg
Journalist and miscellaneous writer; wrote for the Literary Chronicle and the Athenaeum; edited the Church and State Gazette and Notes and Queries; wrote Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (1855), Annals of the English Stage from T. Betterton to E. Kean (1864) and other works. See Boase I: 898, ODNB.
Drew, George Smith
(male)
1819 - 01/21/1880
English
St. John's College, Cambridge
Cleric; incumbent of St. John's, London; promoted evening classes for young men; Vicar of Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire; Wrote Scripture Lands in Connection with their History (1860); fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; wrote for the Christian Observe and the Contemporary Review. See Boase I: 916-7, ODNB.
Fowler, John Coke
(male)
12/26/1815 - 12/16/1899
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Barrister of the Inner Temple; magistrate; wrote Church Pews, their Origin and Legal Incidents (1844)Collieries and Colliers: A Handbook of the Law and Leading Cases Relating Thereto (1872); contributed articles to British Quarterly Review. See Boase V: 339.
Girdlestone, Edward
(male)
09/16/1805 - 12/04/1884
English
Balliol College, Oxford
Cleric, Vicar of Deane; known as "The Agricultural Labourers' Friend"; his Sermons on Romanism and Tractarianism (1851) opposed the Tractarian movement; took a literary view of the Bible. See ODNB.
Horne, Richard Henry
(male)
12/31/1802 - 03/13/1884
English
Naval midshipman, edited the Monthly Repository (1836-1837), spent much time in Australia; wrote poems, dramas, histories; editor / author of A New Spirit of the Age (1844). See Boase I: 1539, ODNB.
Horne, Thomas Hartwell
(male)
10/20/1780 - 01/27/1862
English
Christ's Hospital, London
Biblical scholar and bibliographer; wrote Introduction to the Study of Bibliography (1814), An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures (1818); prebendary in St. Paul's Cathedral. See Boase I: 1539, ODNB.
Hunt, James Henry Leigh
(male)
10/19/1784 - 08/28/1859
English
Celebrated essayist and poet, published The Examiner with his brother, friend of Cockney School poets, active in literary life for several decades. See Boase I: 1591, ODNB.
Lathbury, Thomas
(male)
1798 - 02/11/1865
English
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Church of England cleric and ecclesiastical historian; anti-Catholic; wrote Protestantism the Old Religion, Popery the New (1838), Guy Fawkes, or, A Complete History of the Gunpowder Plot (1839), and other works. See Boase II: 313, ODNB.
Maguire, Rev. Robert
(male)
03/03/1826 - 09/03/1890
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Cleric; curate at St. Nicholas's Cork; Clerical Secretary of the Islington Protestant Institute; rector of St. Olave's Southwark; wrote The Early Irish Church Independent of Rome (1853), St. Peter Non-Roman (1871) and other works. See Boase II: 692-3, ODNB.
Manners, John James Robert
(male)
12/12/1818 - 08/04/1906
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Statesman; wrote England's Trust and Other Poems (1841), English Ballads and Other Poems (1850); M.P.; leading figure in Young England movement. See ODNB.
Mendham, Joseph
(male)
02/14/1769 - 11/01/1856
English
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Cleric; curate at Sutton-Coldfield, Warwickshire; collected a library of controversial theology; contributed to Notes and Queries, the Protestant Journal, the Christian Observer, and the Church of England Quarterly Review. See ODNB.
Muir, John
(male)
02/05/1810 - 03/07/1882
Scottish
University of Glasgow
Civil servant in India; wrote Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions (1852-1870). See Boase II: 1018, ODNB.
Paley, Frederick Abthorp
(male)
01/14/1815 - 12/08/1888
English
St. John's College, Cambridge
Classical scholar; produced editions of Greek classical plays; converted to Catholicism in 1846. See Boase II: 1310, ODNB.
Richards, Alfred Bate
(male)
02/17/1820 - 06/12/1876
English
Exeter College, Oxford
Writer, barrister, and journalist; wrote several tragedies; wrote several books of poems including Death and the Magdalen (1845) and The Dream of the Soul (1848); edited the British Army Despatch, the Mirror of the Time, the Daily Telegraph, and the Morning Advertiser. See Boase III: 137. ODNB.
Roberts, E. T.
(unknown)
unknown
Rowe, Samuel
(male)
11/11/1793 - 09/15/1853
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Bookseller, antiquarian, and cleric; Vicar of Crediton, Devon; co-publisher of the Plymouth Literary Magazine; write Perambulation of Dartmoor (1848). See Boase III: 327, ODNB.
