RICHARD GRANT WHITE BIOGRAPHY
RICHARD GRANT WHITE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885). —Shakespearian scholar, born in New York State, was long Chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau, and was one of the most acute students and critics of Shakespeare, of whose works he pub. two ed., the first in 1865, and the second (the Riverside) in 1883. He also wrote Words and their Uses , Memoirs of Shakespeare , Studies in Shakespeare , The New Gospel of Peace (a satire), The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys (novel), etc.