SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD BIOGRAPHY

TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOON (1795-1854). —Poet and biographer, s. of a brewer at Reading, where he was born , and which he represented in Parliament, 1835-41, was ed. at Mill Hill School. He studied law, was called to the Bar in 1821, and became a Judge in 1849. He d. suddenly of apoplexy while charging the Grand Jury at Stafford. He wrote much for reviews, and in 1835 produced Ion , a tragedy, followed by The Athenian Captive (1838), and The Massacre of Glencoe , all of which were acted with success. T. was the friend and literary executor of Charles Lamb ( q.v. ), and pub. in two sections his Memoirs and Letters . In 1837 he introduced the Copyright Bill, which was passed with modifications in 1842.