Founder and editor of the Art Journal , born at Geneva Barracks, co. Waterford; was for a time a gallery reporter; succeeded Campbell, the poet, as editor of the New Monthly Magazine , and after other journalistic work started in 1839 the well-known periodical the Art Journal , which he continued to edit for upwards of 40 years; in 1880 he received a civil-list pension (1800-1889); his wife,
as in her day a popular and voluminous writer of novels and short tales (1800-1881).