Samuel Laman Blanchard
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Samuel Laman Blanchard (15 May 1804 – 15 February 1845) was a British author and journalist.
Life
The son of a painter and glazier, he was born at Great Yarmouth. He was educated at St Olave's school, Southwark, and then became clerk to a proctor in Doctors' Commons. At an early age he developed an interest in literature, contributing dramatic sketches to a paper called Drama. For a short time he belonged to a travelling theatre company, but then became a proof-reader in London, and wrote for the Monthly Magazine. In 1827 he was made secretary of the Zoological Society, a post he held for three years.
Over-work broke down his strength and, after his wife died in December 1844 of a painful illness, Blanchard entered a depression from which he never recovered. He committed suicide with a razor, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
Works
In 1828 he published Lyric Offerings, dedicated to Charles Lamb. He had a very varied journalistic experience, editing in succession the Monthly Magazine, the True Sun, the Constitutional, the Court Journal, the Courier, and George Cruikshank's Omnibus; and from 1841 until his death he was connected with the Examiner.
In 1846 Edward Bulwer-Lytton collected some of his prose-essays under the title Sketches of Life, to which a memoir of the author was prefixed. His verse was collected in 1876 by William Blanchard Jerrold.
Family
His eldest son was Sidney Laman Blanchard, the author of Yesterday and To-day in India.
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Further reading
- West Norwood Cemetery The Dickens Connection, Friends of West Norwood Cemetery[1], 1995
External links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1804 births
- 1845 deaths
- English male poets
- 19th-century English essayists
- English male journalists
- People educated at St Olave's Grammar School
- Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
- Suicides by sharp instrument in England
- Writers from Great Yarmouth
- 1840s suicides
- 19th-century English poets
- 19th-century English journalists
- English magazine editors
- English male essayists