Surname: Frere Forename(s): John Hookham b. 21 May 1769. d. 1 July 1846. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, translator, and diplomat. Pseudonyms: “W” and “Whistlecraft.” Born in London.
Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. MP for West Looe, Cornwall (1796-1802).
Co-publisher of the Anti-Jacobin with George Canning (1797-1798). Worked for the Foreign Office in Lisbon, Portugal,
and Madrid, Spain (1800-1809). Married Elizabeth Jemima Blake on 12 September 1816.
Moved to Malta in 1818. Co-founder of the Quarterly Review. Close friends with George Canning. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)