William Maginn

William Maginn was born in Cork in 1793, entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a boy of ten, and took his LL.D. at twenty-three.

He wrote for Blackwood’s and was connected with Fraser’s Magazine; he was a prolific humorist and ballad writer, and the author of a series of Homeric Ballads. He died at Walton-on-Thames in 1842.