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 WORKS BY John Leycester Adolphus:
Letters to Richard Heber: containing Critical Remarks on the Series of Novels
beginning with Waverley, and an Attempt to ascertain their Author. Found 4.
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