Pre scott, William Hickling

Ms., 1796-1859. A celebrated historian of Boston. While a student at Harvard College, he lost the use of one eye and not long afterwards the free use of the other, and, until in later life his eyesight improved, he was obliged to depend upon the reading of others in his historical researches. In 1837 his History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella appeared and brought him instant fame. It was followed by The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest of Peru; an edition of Robertson’s Charles V., with Pre scott’s own work on the cloister life of that monarch; History of Philip II.; Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. See Lives by R. Ogden (1904) and Ticknor, infra; All i bone’s Dictionary. Lip.