Surname: Gilchrist Forename(s): Alexander b. 25 April 1828. d. 30 November 1861. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Biographer, art critic, and poet. Educated at University College School, but left
at sixteen to study law. Called to the bar in 1849, but never practised as a barrister.
Married essayist and biographer Anne Burrows on 4 February 1851. Friends with Dante
Gabriel Rossetti. Wrote a major biography of Blake, which his wife published in 1863.
Contributed to the Eclectic Review, the Literary Gazette, and The Critic. Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)