à Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
à Beckett, Gilbert Abbott ( 1811 – 56 ),educated at Westminster School and called to the bar at Gray's Inn. He was the editor of Figaro in London and on the original staff of Punch . He was for many years a leader writer on The Times and the Morning Herald , and was appointed a Metropolitan police magistrate in 1849 . He wrote many plays and humorous works, including a Comic History of England ( 1847 – 8 ), a Comic History of Rome ( 1852 ), and a Comic Blackstone ( 1846 ).
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