William james linton biography

&#;LINTON, WILLIAM JAMES (–), engraver, poet, and political reformer, was born in Ireland's Row, Mile End Road, on 7 Dec.

His father, whose calling is not recorded, was of Scottish extraction, the son of 'an Aberdeen ship carpenter with some pretensions to be called an architect.' His younger brother, Henry Duff Linton (–), who was also a wood-engraver, and was associated with W.

J. Linton in many of his earlier productions, died at Norbiton, Surrey, in June (Times, 23 June ).

Linton received his education at a school in Stratford, and in was apprenticed to the wood-engraver George Wilmot Bonner, with whom he continued for six years.

He subsequently worked with Powis and with Thompson, and in became associated with John Orrin Smith [q.

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v.], then introducing great improvements into English wood-engraving. About the same time he married the sister of Thomas Wade [q. v.] the poet, after whose death he wedded an