William James Linton
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Life 1812-1897; b. London Dec. 7, d. New Haven, Connecticut, Dec. 29; dedicated Chartist who wrote for The Nation as Spartacus in hopes of uniting his cause with Young Ireland; emig. USA, 1866; became leading engraver of his age, author of books on engraving; hon. doct. Yale, 1891; his Rhymes reprinted in Martin MacDermotts The New Spirit of the Nation (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894), p.85.
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References See Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989), p.287.
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