b. February 1790. d. 18 December 1870. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, translator, dramatist, and political activist. Pseudonyms: “Josiah Shufflebotham,”
“T. D.” Born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Involved in the Northern Political Union during
the 1830s, fighting for parliamentary reform. Elected to the Newcastle town council
(1835-1840). Author of verse dramas, including *The Italian Wife* (1823); philosophical
treatises, including *On Mundane and Moral Government* (1852); a collection of fishing
songs, *The Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs* (1852), with Robert Roxby; and the novel *The
Eve of St Mark: a Romance of Venice* (1857). Biographical information: *ODNB*. (AC,
CC)