VICESIMUS KNOX BIOGRAPHY

VICESIMUS KNOX BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

KNOX, VICESIMUS (1752-1821). —Essayist, etc., ed. at Oxf., took orders, and became Head Master of Tunbridge School. He pub. Essays Moral and Literary (1778), and compiled the formerly well-known Elegant Extracts , often reprinted .