Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, editor, and scholar. Alternative signature: J. W. Hales. Born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Educated at the University of Glasgow, Christ’s College, Cambridge, and Lincoln’s Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1867. Served as Professor of English Literature at King’s College, London (1877-1893) and Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge (1889-1893). Author of Notes and Essays on Shakespeare (1884) and editor of Areopagitica (1866) by John Milton. Biographical information: Venn, part 2, vol. 3, p. 194. (SCM, CC)