John Leycester Adolphus

(1794-1862)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Adolphus, John Leycester, 1795-1862 NRA: Adolphus John Leycester (1795-1862) author DNB: Adolphus, John Leycester (bap. 1794, d. 1862), barrister and writer LBT ID: JoAdolp1862 VIAF ID: 15130330 LOC ID: nr91000145	B/BAP: 1794 DIED: 1862-12-24
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (February 1863) 246-47; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The son of the historian; educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, he was a barrister of the Inner Temple. In Letters to Richard Heber (1821) he demonstrated that the Waverley Novels were written by Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO John Leycester Adolphus: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1820-21 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Chapter V 1821 Found 6: ¶ 1 ¶ 10 ¶ 26 ¶ 34 ¶ 35 ¶ 36 Chapter VII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter X 1823 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter XI 1823 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 17 Chapter II 1827 Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter VI 1830 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter VIII 1831 Found 3: ¶ 33 ¶ 34 ¶ 37 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 15: 1828-32 Found 1: ¶ 52