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SPALDING, WILLIAM (1809-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 592 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPALDING, See also:WILLIAM (1809-1859) , See also:British author, was See also:born in See also:Aberdeen on the 22nd of May 1809. He was educated at the See also:grammar school there and at Marischal See also:College, and he went in 183o to See also:Edinburgh, where he was called to the See also:bar in 1833. In that See also:year he published a See also:Letter ,m See also:Shakespeare's Authorship of the two See also:Noble Kinsmen (reprinted for the New Shakspere Society in 1876), which attracted the See also:notice of See also:Jeffrey, who invited Spalding to contribute to the Edinburgh See also:Review. He also spent some See also:time in See also:Italy, and in 1841 published Italy and the See also:Italian Islands from the Earliest Ages to the See also:Present Time. He occupied the See also:chair of See also:rhetoric in Edinburgh University from 184o to 1845, when he was appointed See also:professor of See also:logic in the university of St See also:Andrews, a See also:post which he held till his See also:death on the 16th of See also:November 1859. Besides contributions to the Edinburgh Review, See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine and the eighth edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was the author of a concise See also:History of See also:English Literature (1853).

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