Thomas Aird was a Scottish poet and miscellaneous writer. He was born in 1802 and died in 1876. A friend of Professor Wilson, De Quincey, and Carlyle, he was for a long time editor of a newspaper in Dumfries. He wrote the Devil's Dream on Mount Aksbeck, The Old Bachelor, and other works. Research Thomas Aird
William Blackwood was a Scottish publisher. He was born in 1776 in Edinburgh and died in 1834. He started as a bookseller in 1804, and soon became also a publisher. The first number of Blackwood's Magazine appeared on the 1st of April, 1817, and it was always conducted in the Tory interest. He secured as contributors most of the leading writers belonging to the Tory party, among them Sir Walter Scott, Lockhart, Hogg, Professor Wilson, De Quincey, Dr. Moir (Delta), Thomas Aird, Dr. Maginn, John Galt, and others. The work of editor he performed himself. After his death the business, developed into a large publishing concern, and was carried on by his sons, and the magazine kept its place among the leading periodicals. Later contributors to it were by Bulwer-Lytton, Professor Aytoun, Landor, Charles Lever, Sir Archibald Alison, Sir Theodore Martin, Mrs. Oliphant, W. W. Story, Frederick Locker, Lord Neaves, George Henry Lewes, and George Eliot. Research William Blackwood
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