George Walter Thornbury

(1828-1876)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876 NRA: Thornbury George Walter (1828-1876) historian journalist poet and traveller DNB: Thornbury, (George) Walter (1828-1876), author LBT ID: GeThorn1876 VIAF ID: 64370033 LOC ID: n84121074	B/BAP: 1828-11-13 DIED: 1876-06-11
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English art critic and man of letters; he contributed to Bentley's Miscellany, The Athenaeum, and Household Words; under the supervision of Ruskin he published The Life of J. M. W. Turner, 2 vols (1861).
REFERENCES TO George Walter Thornbury: Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1834-1837. Found 1: ¶ 22