Allingham, William
(male)
03/19/1824 - 11/18/1889
Irish
Poet, diarist, and editor; customs clerk; editor of Fraser's Magazine 1874-9; wrote Poems (1850), Peace and War, an ode (1854), many other works of poetry and songs. See Boase IV: 97-8, ODNB.
Angus, Joseph
(male)
01/16/1816 - 08/28/1902
English
University of Edinburgh; King's College, London
Baptist divine; wrote on Egyptian history and biblical subjects.
Atherstone, Edwin
(male)
04/17/1788 - 01/29/1872
English
Poet and writer; wrote The Fall of Nineveh, a Poem (1828-68), The Sea Kings in England, an Historical Romance (1830), Israel in Egypt [a poem] (1861). See Boase I: 101, ODNB.
Barry, William Whittaker
(male)
? - 10/01/1875
English
Barrister; wrote A Treatise on the Statutory Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery (1861), A Walking Tour of Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman (1867). See Boase I: 183.
Bell, Thomas
(male)
10/11/1792 - 03/13/1880
English
Surgeon; Professor of Zoology at King's College, London; wrote History of British Quadrepeds (1837) and other works. See Boase I: 232.
Birch, Samuel
(male)
11/03/1813 - 12/27/1885
English
Leading Egyptologist; keeper of the Oriental Medieval and British antiquities at the British Museum; wrote works on antiquities, hieroglyphics, ancient pottery, etc. See Boase I: 283, ODNB.
Bowring, Sir John
(male)
10/17/1792 - 11/23/1872
English
Editor of Westminster Review, M.P., sent on diplomatic and commercial missions. Considered a great linguist. Published volumes of translated poems, travel books, tales and sketches. See Boase I: 362, ODNB.
Brown, Charles Armitage
(male)
04/14/1787 - 06/05/1842
English
Member of Keats circle and associate of Charles Dilke; published his own and Keat's poems in New Monthly Magazine. See ODNB.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(female)
03/06/1806 - 06/29/1861
English
Born Elizabeth Barrett, married Robert Browning, author of many poems including Aurora Leigh, lived many years in Florence. See Boase I: 447, ODNB.
Buchanan, Robert Williams
(male)
08/18/1841 - 06/10/1901
Scottish
University of Glasgow
Poet and novelist; wrote for Glasgow newspapers, the Athenaeum, and other periodicals; collaborated on several plays; contributed to All the Year Round; published several books of poems; known for his criticisms of Swinburne. See ODNB.
Busk, Mary Margaret
(female)
1779 - 01/11/1863
English
Writer and translator; née Blair; travelled extensively and proficient in German, French, Spanish, and Italian; wrote for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Foreign Quarterly Review, and Athenaeum; wrote fiction, histories, and Plays and Poems (1837). See ODNB.
Caunter, John Hobart (Rev.)
(male)
1793 - 1851
English
St. Peter's College, Cambridge
Cleric and journalist; went to India as cadet about 1809; incumbent at St. Paul’s chapel, Foley place, London; edited The Oriental Annual 1830-9; published The fellow commoner (1836). See Boase I: 573-4, ODNB.
Chamier, Frederick
(male)
1796 - 10/29/1870
English
Naval officer, retired as captain in 1856, wrote The Life of a Sailor, other travel books and novels, contributed to New Monthly Magazine, Metropolitan Magazine. See Boase I: 588-9, ODNB.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill
(male)
12/15/1808 - 02/16/1872
English
Reviewer and music critic for the Athenaeum, wrote Memorials of Mrs. Hemans (1836), Modern German Music, other works. See Boase I: 614, ODNB.
Chorley, John Rutter
(male)
07/31/1806 - 06/29/1867
English
Scholar of Spanish literature and poet; secretary to the Liverpool-Birmingham Grand Junction railway; published poems, stories and essays in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine; reviewed German, Italian, and Spanish publications for the Athenaeum. See Boase I: 614, ODNB.
Collier, John Payne
(male)
01/11/1789 - 09/17/1883
English
Reporter on the Times and the Morning Chronicle, secretary of Royal Commission on British Museum, accused of literary frauds, published poems, editions of Shakespeare and Spenser. See Boase I: 677-8, ODNB.
Cook, Edward Dutton
(male)
01/30/1829 - 09/11/1883
English
Theater critic, journalist and author; theater critic for Pall Mall Gazette, assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine; theater critic for The World; wrote for many reviews; wrote several novels. See Boase I: 699, ODNB.
Cooley, William Desborough
(male)
1795 - 03/01/1883
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Geographer; published The World Surveyed in the XIX Century (1845-8); See Boase I: 706-7; replace Wellesley year of birth 1794/1795 with 1795. EMC, VPR 30 (1997), 327. See ODNB.
Costello, Dudley
(male)
1803 - 09/30/1865
Irish
Contributed to many periodicals from 1835 to his death, foreign correspondent for newspapers, wrote travel books. See Boase I: 725, ODNB.
Costello, Louisa Stuart
(female)
1799 - 04/24/1870
Irish
A poet, historian, journalist, painter and novelist, she is perhaps best known for her travel writing. She was the sister of Dudley Costello. See Boase I: 725-6, ODNB.
