George Stovin Venables
George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), born in Wales, was a journalist and a barrister at the English bar.
His father was Richard Venables, vicar of
Cambridge Apostle from 1832.[4]
He became a Fellow of Jesus College.
He was
Saturday Review.[5]
His literary connections included time at Charterhouse with William Makepeace Thackeray (they fought); the character George Warrington in Pendennis is said to be based on Venables.[5][6] A friendship with Alfred, Lord Tennyson arose from Cambridge days.[7] He wrote an anonymous book of verse Joint Compositions (1848) with Henry Lushington. He was an early and favourable reviewer of Thomas Carlyle, another friend.[8]
Notes
- ^ "DILLWYN DILLWYN-LLEWELYN, (DILLWYN) VENABLES-LLEWELYN". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ "Venables, George Stovin (VNBS828GS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF). London: MacMillan & Co. 1859. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ The Apostles
- ^ a b David Carroll, George Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1995), p. 224.
- ^ In Anthony Trollope's biography.
- ^ "The Carlyle Letters Online". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2007.
- ^ Jules Paul Seigel, Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage (1995), p. 467.
References
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
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