PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER ("BARRY CORNWALL") (1787-1874)

—Poet, b. at Leeds, and ed. at Harrow, went to London and practised succe fully as a solicitor. Thereafter he became a barrister, and was, 1832-61, a Commi ioner of Lunacy. By 1823 he had produced four vols. of poetry and a tragedy, Mirandola (1821). His works include Dramatic Scenes (1819), A Sicilian Story , Marcian Colonna (1820), The Flood of The aly (1823), and English Songs (1832), which last will perhaps survive his other writings. P. was the friend of most of his literary contemporaries, and was universally beloved. PROUT, FATHER, ( see MAHONY, F.S. ).