Jerdan

Jerdan

Jerdan, William, geb. 1782 zu Kelso in der Grafschaft Roxburg; studirte die Rechte, widmete sich aber später ausschließlich der Literatur, redigirte das Journal Aurora, dann den Sun u. die Literary Gazette, stiftete die Literary fund society; that, zum Besten der englischen Schriftsteller, den Vorschlag zur Stiftung einer National association u. entwarf den Plan zu der Royal society of literature; er schr.: Voyage to the Isle of Elba, Lond. 1814, u. bearbeitete Jouys L'hermite de la chaussée d'Antin, in dem Paris spectator, 1815, 3 Bde.; schr. außerdem Memoiren von Canning, Huskisson, Eldon, Perceval, Palmerston u. A. in Fishers National portrait gallery of illust. and eminent personages 1830–34, 5 Bde.


Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865.

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