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Henry Reeve (soldier) "Henry Reeve (
9 September 1813 -21 October 1895 ) was an Englishjournalist .Biography
He was the younger son of Henry Reeve, a Whig physician and writer from
Norwich , and was born at Norwich. He was educated at the Norwichgrammar school underEdward Valpy . During his holidays he saw a good deal of the youngJohn Stuart Mill . In 1829 he studied atGeneva and mixed in Genevese society, then very brilliant, and including the Sismondis,François Huber ,Charles Victor de Bonstetten ,Alphonse de Candolle , Rossil,Sigismund Krasinski (his most intimate friend), andAdam Mickiewicz , whose "Fans" he translated. During a visit to London in 1831 he was introduced to Thackeray andThomas Carlyle , while through the Austins he made the acquaintance of other literary figures. Next year, inParis , he metVictor Hugo ,Victor Cousin , and SirWalter Scott . He travelled inItaly , sat under Schelling atMunich and underLudwig Tieck atDresden , became in 1835-36 a member of Madame de Circourt's salon, and numbered among his friendsAlphonse de Lamartine ,Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ,Alfred de Vigny ,Adolphe Thiers ,François Guizot ,Charles Forbes René de Montalembert , andAlexis de Tocqueville , of whose books, "Démocratie en Amérique" and the "Ancien régime", he made standard translations into English.In 1837 be was made clerk of appeal and then registrar to the judicial committee of the Privy Council. From 1840 to 1855 he wrote for The Times, his close touch with men like Guizot,
Christian Bunsen , Lord Clarendon, and his own chief at the Privy Council Office, Charles Greville, enabling him to write with authority on foreign policy during the critical period from 1848 to the end of theCrimean War . Upon the promotion of SirGeorge Cornewall Lewis to the Cabinet early in 1855 Reeve was asked byLongman to edit the April number of the "Edinburgh Review ", to which his father had been one of the earliest contributors, and in the following July he became the editor. His friendship with theOrleanist leaders in France survived all vicissitudes, but he was appealed to for guidance by successive French ambassadors, and was more than once the medium of private negotiations between the English and French governments.In April 1863, he published perhaps the most important of his contributions--a searching review of Kinglake's "Crimea"; and in 1872 he brought out a selection of his "Quarterly" and "Edinburgh" articles on eminent Frenchmen, entitled "Royal and Republican France". Three years later appeared the first of three instalments (1875, 1885 and 1887) of his edition of the famous "Memoirs" which Charles Greville had placed in his hands a few hours before his death in 1865. A purist in point of form and style, of the school of
Thomas Macaulay andHenry Hart Milman , Reeve outlived his literary generation, and became one of the most reactionary of old Whigs. Yet he continued to edit and maintain the reputation of the Edinburgh until his death at his seat of Foxholes, inHampshire . He had been elected a member of "The Club" in 1861, and served as its treasurer from 1867 to 1893. He was made a D.C.L. by theUniversity of Oxford in 1869, a C.B. in 1871, and a corresponding member of the French Institute in 1865. A strikingpanegyric was pronounced upon him by his lifelong friend, the duc d'Aumale, before the Académie des Sciences in November 1895.His "Memoirs and Letters" (2 vols., with portrait) were edited by Sir JK Laughton, in 1898.
In a March 1937 issue of
The Times there was an appeal for Henry Reeve'sdiary .External links
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** (Note: as of 2007-12-15, project Gutenberg also lists him, incorrectly, as "Henry Reeves")
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