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

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