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BLANCHARD, SAMUEL LAMAN (1804-1845)

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BLANCHARD, See also:SAMUEL LAMAN (1804-1845) , See also:British author and journalist, the son of a painter and glazier, was See also:born at See also:Great See also:Yarmouth on the 15th of May 1804. He was educated at St Olave's school, See also:Southwark, and then became clerk to a See also:proctor in Doctors' See also:Commons. At an See also:early See also:age he See also:developed See also:literary tastes, contributing dramatic sketches to a See also:paper called See also:Drama. For a See also:short See also:time he was a member of a travelling dramatic See also:company, but subsequently became a See also:proof-reader in See also:London, and wrote for the Monthly See also:Magazine. In 1827 he was made secretary of the Zoological Society, a See also:post which he held for three years. In 1828 he published Lyric Offerings, dedicated to See also:Charles See also:Lamb. He had a very varied journalistic experience, editing in See also:succession the Monthly Magazine, the True See also:Sun, the Constitutional, the See also:Court See also:Journal, the See also:Courier, and See also:George See also:Cruikshank's See also:Omnibus; and from 1841 tih his See also:death he was connected with the Examiner. In 1846 Bulwer-See also:Lytton collected a number of his See also:prose-essays under the See also:title Sketches of See also:Life, to which a memoir of the author was prefixed. His See also:verse was collected in 1876 by Blanchard See also:Jerrold. Over-See also:work See also:broke down his strength, and, unnerved by the death of his wife, he died by his own See also:hand on the 15th of See also:February 1845. His eldest son, See also:SIDNEY LAMAN BLANCHARD, who was the author of Yesterday and To-See also:day in See also:India, died in 1883.

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