A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbot
(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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)