Poet, critic, editor, teacher, and prose writer. Educated at Magdalene College, Oxford,
and Lincoln’s Inn. Editor of *Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine*. Professor of Moral
Philosophy in Edinbugh (1280-1851). Author of *The Isle of Palms and Other Poems*
(1812). Biographical information: *The Knickerbocker*, vol. iii, Clark and Edson,
1834, p. 65; John Wilson, *The Isle of Palms and Other Poems*, James Eastburn, 1812,
p. 1; Foster, *Alumni Oxonienses*, vol. 3-4, p. 1888. (CC)