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JOHN LEYCESTER ADOLPHUS (1795-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN LEYCESTER ADOLPHUS (1795-1862)  ,
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English lawyer and author, was the son of John Adolphus (1768-1845), a well-known
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London
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barrister who wrote a
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History of England to 1783 (1802), a History of France from 1790 (1803) and other
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works . He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at St . John's College, Oxford . In 1821 he published Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., in which he discussed the authorship of the then
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anonymous Waverley novels, and fixed it upon
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Sir Walter Scott . This conclusion was based on the resemblance of the novels in general style and method to the poems acknowledged by Scott . Scott thought at first that the letters were written by Reginald Heber, afterwards bishop of
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Calcutta, and the
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discovery of J . L . Adolphus's identity led to a warm friend-
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ship . Adolphus was called to the bar in 1822, and his Circuiteers, an
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Eclogue, is a parody of the style of two of his colleagues on the
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northern circuit . He became judge of the Marylebone County Court in 1852, and was a bencher of the Inner Temple . He was the author of Letters from Spain in 2856 and 1857 (1858), and was completing his
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father's History of England at the time of his
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death on the 24th of December 1862 .

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