De Quincey, Thomas Penson
(male)
08/15/1785 - 12/08/1859
English
Worcester College, Oxford
Autobiographer, journalist, essayist; most known for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; editor of Westmoreland Gazette; wrote for London Magazine, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; wrote The Logic of Political Economy (1844). See Boase I: 862, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)