Torrens, Robert
(male)
1780 - 05/27/1864
Irish
Soldier, author, and politician; retired from military Oct 1834; M.P.; proprietor of Traveller newspaper and editor of The Globe; wrote novels, An Essay on the External Corn Trade (1815), On Wages and Combinations (1834), other works. See Boase III: 991-2, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)