Richard Grant White

Richard Grant White (23 May 1822–8 April 1885) was a Shakespearean scholar who was born and died in New York USA."A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time" Vol. VIII: "Literature of the Republic Part III—Continued, 1835-1860", Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchison, 1889, pp. 3-19 ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=1h4TAAAAIAAJ Google Books] )]

He graduated from New York University in 1839, studied medicine, then law, and was admitted to the bar in 1845, then became a journalist. He was a longtime Chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau.

Bibliography

As one of the most acute students and critics of Shakespeare, White's scholarship was recognized. He published two editions of Shakespeare's works and other works:
* "Life and Genius of Shakespeare" (1865)
* "The New Gospel of Peace" (1866)
* "The Riverside" (1883)
* "Words and their Uses"
* "Memoirs of Shakespeare"
* "Studies in Shakespeare"
* "The New Gospel of Peace" (a satire)
* "The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys" (1884), a novel
* "Shakespeare's Scholar" (1854)
* "Essay on the Authorship of the Three Parts of Henry VI" (1859)

Personal and family life

White was dogmatic and inclined to controversy. He was passionate about music, played the cello, and founded the "Richard Grant White String Quartette", which survived into the 1930s.

In 1850, he married Alexina Black Mease (1830–1921) of Charleston, South Carolina. They were the parents of Stanford White, the celebrated New York City architect.

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