The Edinburgh Review was a quarterly review established in 1802. It had an immediate and striking success, the brilliancy and vigour of its articles being much above the periodical literature of that time. In politics it was Whig, and did good service to the party. The Review was founded by a knot of young men living in Edinburgh, the more prominent of whom were Brougham, Jeffrey, SydneySmith, and E Horner. It was edited from 1803 to 1829 by Jeffrey, under whom it was very successful. Research The Edinburgh Review
Charles James Blomfield was Bishop of London. He was born in 1786 at Bury-St.-Edmunds and died in 1857. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took high honours and was elected fellow. He was ordained in 1810, and after filling successively several curacies, and acting for a time as chaplain to the Bishop of London, was presented to the rectory of St Botolph, Bishopsgate. In 1822 he became Archdeacon of Colchester, in 1824 he was made Bishop of Chester, and in 1828 Bishop of London. He was a distinguished classical scholar, and published editions of several of the dramas of AEschylus, and others of Callimachus and Euripides, writing also on kindred subjects for the Edinburgh and the Quarterly Review. He edited a translation of the Greek grammar of Matthias, executed by a younger brother, Edward Blomfield. His chief distinction was gained by his energy in the management of his diocese, and his success in the cause of churchextension in the metropolis. By his exertion many churches were built and schools started, and the colonies benefited by his efforts as well as London. In regard to the Tractarian movement, his attempts to lead his clergy to take a middle course gave rise to a good deal of discussion in his diocese. Research Charles Blomfield
Charles Hodge was an American theologist. He was born in 1797 at Philadelphia and died in 1878. He graduated at Princeton College in 1815, and was professor of theology at Princeton from 1822 to 1878, founded the Princeton Review which he edited until it was combined with the Presbyterian Quarterly in 1871. He was author of a 'Systematic Theology', and of great influence upon Presbyterian theological thought. Research Charles Hodge
Christopher Addison was an English politician and surgeon. He was born in 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire and died in 1951. Educated at Harrogate and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London where he qualified, he was for a time professor of anatomy at University College, Sheffield and editor of the Quarterly Medical Journal. In 1910 he entered politics as Liberal member of parliament for Hoxton and in 1914 became parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education. He assisted Lloyd George in the scheme for National Health Insurance, and was appointed first secretary to the new Ministry of Munitions, and in 1917 head of the new Ministry of reconstruction. In 1919 Christopher Addison became Britain's first minister of health. In 1921 following difficulties with Lloyd George Christopher Addison resigned and joined the Labour Party. He was created a baron in 1937 and in 1940 assumed leadership of the Labour peers, in 1945 becoming leader of the House of Lords. Research Christopher Addison
David Thomas Ansted was an English geologist. He was born in 1814 and died in 1880. He was professor of geology at King's College, London, and assistant-secretary to the Geological Society, whose quarterly journal he edited for many years. His writings on geology were standard authorities. Research David Ansted
Henry Nelson Coleridge was an English writer. He was born in 1800 and died in 1843. He was the son of ColonelColeridge, a brother of the elder Coleridge and a distinguished student at Cambridge, and a contributor along with Macaulay and Praed to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. He is best known as the editor of the Literary Remains and Table Talk of his uncle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Research Henry Coleridge
John Wilson Croker was an English writer and politician. He was born in 1780 at Galway and died in 1857. Educated at Cork and at Trinity College, Dublin, he was called to the Irish bar in 1802. In 1803 he published anonymously Familiar Epistles on the Irish Stage, and in 1805 an Intercepted Letter from China, both clever satires. In 1808 he entered parliament as member for Downpatrick. He was appointed in 1809 to the position of secretary to the admiralty, which he retained until the reign of William IV. The Reform Bill was strenuously opposed by him, and on the passing of that measure in 1832 he withdrew from public life. He was one of the founders of the Quarterly Review, and one of its ablest contributors, though his articles display frequent malevolence. His other writings include an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson; Him and Trafalgar, and Talavera, two poems; Stories from the History of England, from which Sir Walter Scott derived his idea of Tales of a Grandfather; and editions of the Suffolk Papers, Lady Hervey's Letters, Lord Hervey's Memoirs, and Walpole's Letters. Research John Croker
John Frederick Daniell was an English physicist. He was born in 1790 at London and died in 1845. In 1816 together with Brande he started the Quarterly Journal of Science and Art. In 1820 he published an account of a new hygrometer which he had invented. In 1831 he was appointed professor of chemistry in King's College, London, and made further important discoveries, chief amongst which was his apparatus for maintaining a powerful and continuous current of electricity in galvanic batteries. For these discoveries he received successively the three medals in the gift of the Royal Society. In 1843 he was made a DCL of Oxford. Research John Daniell
John Hookham Frere was an English writer and politician. He was born in 1769 at London and died in 1846. He is now chiefly remembered as one of the writers in the Anti-Jacobin Review at the close of the 18th century; and afterwards connected with the establishment of the Quarterly Review in 1809. A satirical poem published by him in 1817, entitled Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, followed by another entitled The Monks and the Giants, obtained in their day much popularity. His translations in verse of some of the comedies of Aristophanes are well known for their remarkable excellence. John Hookham Frere entered parliament in 1796, and succeeded Canning as undersecretary for foreign affairs in 1799. In 1818-1819 he acted as British ambassador in Spain, and subsequently held other diplomatic posts in Portugal and Prussia. The latter years of his life were spent in Malta, where he died. Research John Hookham Frere
Peter Elmsley was an English scholar. He was born in 1773 and died in 1825. Educated at Oxford, he was one of the original contributors to the Edinburgh review, and wrote occasionally, at a subsequent period, in the Quarterly. He finally settled at Oxford, on obtaining the headship of St Alban Hall and the Camden professorship of ancient history in 1823. He published editions of the OEdipus Tyrannus (1811), Heraclidae (1815), Medea (1818), Bacchae (1821), and OEdipus Coloneus (1823). Research Peter Elmsley
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