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Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy.

Bryan Waller Procter
Bryan Waller Procter in an 1830 portrait by William Brockedon
Born(1787-11-21)21 November 1787
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Died5 October 1874(1874-10-05) (aged 86)
London, England
Occupation(s)Poet, solicitor
SpouseAnne Skepper
ChildrenAdelaide Anne Procter

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Bryan Procter

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Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. Born at Leeds...

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Emily Procter

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Nightingale school in Stockton, California. Procter has been in a relationship with musician Paul Bryan since 2008. On December 8, 2010, she gave birth...

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Procter

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Procter is a surname, and may refer to Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), British poet, daughter of Bryan Procter Andrew Procter (cricketer) (born 1968)...

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Lake Poets

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years, beyond the core Lake Poets. These include their contemporaries Bryan Procter, Felicia Hemans, and Walter Scott, as well as the labouring-class and...

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Louisa Nottidge

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Harriet Martineau wrote, in her biography of Bryan Procter, the following: "For many years Mr Procter held the lucrative but not very congenial appointment...

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Polyphemus

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further poetical treatment. In 1819 appeared "The Death of Acis" by Bryan Procter, writing under the name of Barry Cornwall. A blank verse narrative with...

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Lunatic asylum

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based his 1859 novel The Woman in White on this case, dedicating it to Bryan Procter, the Commissioner for Lunacy. A generation later, Rosina Bulwer Lytton...

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Evangeline

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conscious of the potential criticism. When sending a copy of the poem to Bryan Procter, Longfellow wrote: "I hope you will not reject it on account of the...

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Charles Lamb

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Publishing, London, 1938. Charles Lamb; A Memoir, by Barry Cornwall aka Bryan Procter, Edward Moxon, London, 1866. Young Charles Lamb, by Winifred Courtney...

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Mary Lamb

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with new members joining the circle including Thomas Noon Talfourd and Bryan Procter. In 1820, they met a young girl named Emma Isola, who may have been...

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Leigh Hunt

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around Hunt at Hampstead. The Hunt Circle also included Hazlitt, Lamb, Bryan Procter, Benjamin Haydon, Charles Cowden Clarke, C. W. Dilke, Walter Coulson...

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List of playwrights

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Nancy Price (1880–1970, England) J. B. Priestley (1894–1984, England) Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874, England) Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868–1927...

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Thomas Hood

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Reynolds, Charles Lamb, Henry Cary, Thomas de Quincey, Allan Cunningham, Bryan Procter, Serjeant Talfourd, Hartley Coleridge, the peasant-poet John Clare,...

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List of poets

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poet and academic Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomat Bryan Procter (1787–1874), English poet Sextus Propertius (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin...

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1874 in literature

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Creole novelist and dramatist writing in French (born 1817) October 5 – Bryan Procter, English poet (born 1787) October 24 – Thomas Miller, English poet (born...

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Agapemonites

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station. Cobbe alerted the Commissioners in Lunacy, whose report by Bryan Procter led to her release in May 1848. Louisa then sued her brother, cousin...

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Commissioners in Lunacy

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Turner, Medical (1845–1854) Henry Herbert Southey, Medical (1845–1848) Bryan Procter, Legal (1845–1860) Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Lay...

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1787 in Great Britain

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(died 1854) 4 November – Edmund Kean, actor (died 1833) 21 November – Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall), poet (died 1874) 22 November – Copley Fielding, watercolour...

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1874 in the United Kingdom

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– Francis E. Anstie, doctor and journalist (born 1833) 5 October – Bryan Procter, poet (born 1787) 24 October – Thomas Miller, poet (born 1807) 18 November...

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List of Old Harrovians

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Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar Bryan Procter alias "Barry Cornwall" (1787–1874), English poet and Commissioner in...

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Adelaide Anne Procter

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the Bloomsbury district of London, on 30 October 1825 to the poet Bryan Waller Procter and his wife Anne (née Skepper). The family had strong literary ties:...

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