“We love or pity individuals, not multitudes, and we cannot, if we would, forget them.”
About Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874
Bryan Waller Procter, known to generations of readers by the literary name Barry Cornwall, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 21 November 1787, and died in London on 5 October 1874. He belonged to that broad, fascinating company of early nineteenth-century writers who stood close to the great Romantic generation without…