Cockney School
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The "Cockney School" refers to a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century. The term came in the form of hostile reviews in Blackwood's Magazi
Leigh Hunt the supposed chief offender of the "Cockney School."
John Wilson FRSE was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
John Wilson
Wilson's house, Elleray painted by Alexander Nasmyth 1808
Prof John Wilson by James Fillans
John Wilson's grave, Dean Cemetery