Works
Most of Corry's works were published anonymously. Besides editing a periodical, he furnished the letterpress for the History of Liverpool (1810), published by Thomas Troughton; wrote vol. i. of the History of Bristol, 2 vols. (1816), the second volume being supplied by John Evans; and a History of Macclesfield (1817). More ambitious was the History of Lancashire, 2 vols. (1825), with a dedication to George IV. [1] It was, however, derivative of a work of Matthew Gregson, of 1817. [2]
His book The Detector of Quackery (1802) was a criticism of medical frauds and quackery of his day. [3]
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is remembered especially for the poem "After Blenheim" and the original version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
John Sell Cotman was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator, and a leading member of the Norwich School of painters.
Henry Thomas Colebrooke FRS FRSE FLS was an English orientalist and mathematician. He has been described as "the first great Sanskrit scholar in Europe".
Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature was an important 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743–1825), a Presbyterian minister and scholar who had edited previous editions of Chambers's Cyclopædia.
Sir John Leslie, FRSE KH was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat.
John Foster (1770–1843) was an English Baptist minister and essayist.
John Debrett was an English publisher and compiler. His name has become associated with reference books.
Lucy Peacock was a British author, editor, translator, bookseller and publisher of children's books during the late eighteenth century. She wrote anonymously, for children and young adults. Possibly she was married or perhaps in partnership with one or members of her family, since 'R. and L. Peacock,' which published a number of items at the Juvenile Library, No. 259, Oxford-Street from at least 1796 to 1810.
Johnson Grant (1773–1844) was a Scottish priest of the Church of England. He was alleged to be an evangelical early in his ministry, but his mature written works lampooned evangelicals in vitriolic fashion and modern scholarship views Grant as a High churchman.
Charles Richard Elrington (1787–1850) was a Church of Ireland cleric and academic, regius professor of divinity in the Trinity College Dublin.
John Platts (1775–1837) was an English Unitarian minister and author, a compiler of reference works.
The Naval Chronicle was a British periodical published monthly between January, 1799 and December, 1818 (Huntington). It contained information about the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, including biographies, histories, news, and essays on nautical subjects, as well as poems and ballads on a variety of related topics (Jeffery).
William Fordyce Mavor was a Scottish teacher, priest and compiler of educational books, many of which passed through numerous editions. He also invented a system of shorthand, which he explained in a treatise entitled 'Universal Stenography’, first published in 1779. He is buried in the church at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, where there is a commemorative plaque.
William Bingley was an English cleric, naturalist and writer.
Samuel Burdy (c.1760–1820) was an Irish author, known as the biographer of Philip Skelton.
George D'Oyly (1778–1846) was an English cleric and academic, theologian and biographer.
Peter K. Moran [P. K. Moran] was an Irish pianist, composer, and music publisher – probably the earliest classical composer from Ireland to emigrate to the United States.
John Davy was an English composer, particularly of music for stage productions in London.
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