WILLIAM NUGENT GLASCOCK BIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM NUGENT GLASCOCK BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

GLASCOCK, WILLIAM NUGENT (1787-1847). —Novelist. He saw a good deal of service in the navy with credit, and from this drew the inspiration of his vigorous and breezy sea-stories, which include Sailors and Saints (1829), Tales of a Tar (1836), and Land Sharks and Sea Gulls (1838) .