Life
1785-1852; b. London, ed. Dublin, of Irish parents; Ed. annual London; Ed. Bell’s Life; interested in law and police, publishing in 1824 a detailed proposal similar to that adopted in Peel’s Metropolitan Police Act. In 1812, he seized hold of Bellingham just after the murder of the Prime Minister Percival in the House of Commons; courier for Queen
Caroline, and champion of her cause [cf. Thomas Ashe, supra]. ODNB PI DIW
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References
Dictionary of National Biography: 1785-1852; wrote for Star; crossed channel in open boat for Observer; first with news of Queen
Caroline’s return, 1820; ed. Bell’s Life, 1824-52; issued annual Fistiana, and claimed to have originated plan for new police system.
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