Charles J. Billson

Charles James Billson (1858–1932) was a translator, lawyer, and collector of folklore.

Billson was born in Leicester, graduated from Oxford University, and died in Surrey. His works include a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, and a noted paper on the Easter Hare. He began a correspondence with Hermann Melville, after requesting a reading list from the great author, and introduced him to works by the then obscure poet James Thomson. Billson forwarded his correspondence to Melville's biographers.^[1]

Charles J. Billson was President (1893-1894) of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.^[2]

References

1. ^ Gale, Robert L. (1995). A Herman Melville encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 39–40. ISBN 9780313290114. http://books.google.com/books?id=M7Fo3O4f9PkC&pg=PA39. Retrieved 15 February 2011. 
2. ^ http://www.le.ac.uk/litandphil/presidents/1893.html Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society

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Name	Billson, Charles J.
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Date of birth	1858
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Date of death	1932
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