William Caldwell Roscoe

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William Caldwell Roscoe (1823–1859) was an English journalist and poet.

Life

Born at

University College, London, graduating in the University of London in 1843.[1][2]

Roscoe was

Richmond, Surrey of typhoid fever, on 30 July 1859.[1]

Works

Roscoe published two tragedies, Eliduc (1846) and Violenzia (1851, anon.), and much verse. As a journalist he had numerous essays in the Prospective Review, and the National Review, of which his brother-in-law Richard Holt Hutton was editor. These compositions were collected and published in 1860 by Hutton, with a memoir; the poems and dramas were republished in 1891 by his daughter, Elizabeth Mary Roscoe.[1]

Family

Roscoe married in 1855 Emily, daughter of William Malin of Derby.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Roscoe, William Caldwell" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24085. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Roscoe, William Caldwell". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

William Caldwell Roscoe page on the JJ Heath-Caldwell family history website

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