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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gifford, William, 1756-1826 NRA: Gifford, William (1756-1826) Editor of the Quarterly Review DNB: Gifford, William (1756-1826), satirist and editor LBT ID: WiGiffo1826 VIAF ID: 12297538 LOC ID: n85145422 | B/BAP: 1756-04 DIED: 1826-12-31 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
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). | |
