A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
(male)
01/09/1811 - 08/30/1856
English
Proprietor of several periodicals; edited Figaro in London; staff member of Punch; wrote for Times and Morning Herald; barrister and magistrate; wrote The Comic Blackstone (1846) and other comic works; wrote over 50 plays. See Boase I: 4-5, ODNB.
Acton, Eliza
(female)
04/17/1799 - 02/13/1859
English
Poet and cookery writer; published Poems (1826), Modern Cookery in all its Branches (1845), other works. See Boase I: 12, ODNB.
Addison, Henry Robert
(male)
1805 - 06/24/1876
Irish
Born in Calcutta; soldier; wrote dramas and farces for English theatre; wrote songs and articles for monthly magazines; author of about 12 novels. See Boase I: 22, ODNB.
Ainsworth, William Harrison
(male)
02/04/1805 - 01/03/1882
English
Author, editor, and publisher; edited and published Ainsworth's Magazine and the New Monthly Magazine; edited Bentley's Miscellany; wrote historical novels Jack Sheppard, Old St. Paul's, Lancashire Witches, and many others. See Boase I: 33-34, ODNB.
Akerman, John Yonge
(male)
06/12/1806 - 11/18/1873
English
Numismatist and antiquary; secretary to the radical politician William Cobbett; editor of Archaeologia and Numismatic Journal; established Numismatic society; published catalogs and archaeological guides. See Boase I: 37, ODNB.
Aldrich, James
(male)
07/14/1810 - 09/09/1856
American
Poet and journalist; founded the New York Literary Gazette.
Aspinall, Rev. George
(male)
English
Cleric and poet; born in Liverpool, Curate of St. Matthias, wrote Florence Ray.
Austin, Wiltshire Stanton
(male)
1826 - 09/07/1875
English
Exeter College, Oxford
Barrister; one of the original contributors to Temple Bar; co-author of The Lives of the Poets-Laureate (1853), edited Weeds from the Isis (1856). See Boase IV: 209.
Banks, George Linnaeus
(male)
03/02/1821 - 05/03/1881
English
Promoted Mechanics' Institutes; edited several newspapers; wrote Blossoms of Poesy (1841), Slaves for the human ladder, poems (1850). See Boase I: 152, 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.
Barham, Richard Harris Dalton
(male)
1815 - 04/28/1886
English
Oriel College, Oxford
Ordained priest and rector; son of Richard Harris Barham; wrote The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook (1849), The Life and Letters of the Rev. R.H. Barham (1870). See Boase IV: 264-265.
Barker, William Gideon Michael Jones
(male)
08/27/1817 - 04/10/1855
English
Author of The three days of Wensleydale, the valley of the Yore (1854), historian. See Boase I: 166.
Barry, Michael Joseph
(male)
1817 - 01/23/1889
Irish
Writer and barrister, wrote humorous poems for the Dublin University Magazine; wrote political articles; member of Young Ireland; imprisoned for political actions; published Lays of the War (1856). See ODNB.
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.
Beattie, William
(male)
02/23/1793 - 03/17/1875
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Physician to the Duke of Clarence; foreign secretary to British Archeological Society; travelled in France, Italy, Germany; wrote Journal of a Residence in Germany (1821), The Danube (1844), Life of Thomas Campbell (1848), other works. See Boase I: 211, ODNB.
Bell, Robert
(male)
01/16/1800 - 04/12/1867
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Started Dublin Historical Society; edited the Atlas, the Morning Chronicle, and the Home News; wrote History of Russia (1838), Lives of the English Poets (1839), other works; wrote 3 5-act comedies. See Boase I: 231, ODNB.
Benett, William
(male)
02/24/1779 - 08/25/1859
English
Merton College, Oxford; Wadham College, Oxford
Perhaps the William Benett who was a barrister and a police magistrate. (In Wellesley Index as W. Bennett.) See Boase IV: 357.
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.
Bentley, Annie Keziah
(female)
1831
English
Daughter of publisher Richard Bentley (1794-1871).
Bentley, Joseph Clayton
(male)
1809 - 10/09/1851
English
Landscape painter; exhibited at Royal Academy; contributed plates for many publications including Gems of European Art (1847). See Boase I: 249, ODNB.
