Edward Quillanan
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Life
1791-1851; b. Oporto, son of Irish wine merchant; ed. England, a Catholic; worked in his fathers counting house in Portugal; forced out by
French in 1807; served in cavalry; his poetry, publ. after 1814, brought a connection with Wordsworth; associated with Blackwoods Magazine; trans. from Portuguese, including the Lusiad; wrote a novel, The Conspirators (1841), containing recollections of military service on Iberian peninsula. ODNB SUTH
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