I have now done my ‘Sketch of Brougham’; and as
soon as I have got the whole in print I will endeavour to curtail and reduce
into some kind of order, for Mr. Gifford’s final correction.
William Gifford (1756-1826)
Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he
published
The Baviad (1794),
The Maeviad
(1795), and
The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming
the founding editor of the
Quarterly Review (1809-24).