KESSON

John . b. Aberdeen; private sec. to Joseph Hume, M.P.; a transcriber on the catalogue of the British Museum 1838, retired 1857; a French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic scholar; contributed to the Critic, Literary Gazette and New Quarterly Review, and was editor of last numbers of each of these publications in 1863, 1862 and 1862; resided in Paris as a newspaper correspondent 1857 .; employed at South Kensington museum in preparing the Universal catalogue of books on art 1869; compiled A catalogue of the Dyce books in the South Kensington museum 1875; editor of Travels in Scotland, by J. G. Kohl, a translation 1844; The childhood of king Erik Menved, by S. B. Ingemann, a translation 1846; author of The cro and the dragon, or the fortunes of christianity in China 1854; with R. T. Scott, A complete guide to the British museum 1843. d. 1876. Cowtan’s Memories of British museum (1872) 311–16.