Cornwall, Barry

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (21 November 1787 - 5 October 1874) was an English poet. Bryan Waller Procter in an 1830 portrait by William Brockedon. Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel. On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne, Wiltshire, remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to London to study law. By the death of his father in 1816 he became possessed of a small property, and soon after entered into partnership with a solicitor; but in 1820 the partners...