White, Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841

found: NUC pre-1956(hdg.: White, Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841; usages: Joseph Blanco White; Leucadio Doblado; José Blanco White; J. Blanco White; Josef María Blanco)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 21 December 2017(Joseph Blanco White, formerly José María Blanco y Crespo; author; born 11 July 1775 in the calle Jamerdana, Seville; his paternal grandfather, William White, emigrated from Waterford to Andalusia at the beginning of the eighteenth century and established an import-export business in Seville; his father, also William White, adopted the Spanish form of his name, Guillermo Blanco; Joseph Blanco White lived in England from 1810-1832; while there he set up and edited a Spanish-language political journal, El Español; he worked for the Foreign Office, giving reports on South American affairs; he studied to become Anglican clergy; he wrote a series for the New monthly magazine titled "Letters from Spain," using the pseudonym Don Leucadio Doblado; he wrote the novel Vargas: a tale of Spain; he became editor of Variedades, a London magazine; he wrote Practical and internal evidence against Catholicism, and The poor man's preservative against popery; he briefly lived in Ireland; he died in Liverpool on 20 May 1841)

found: Bentley's miscellany, 1845:volume 17, number 97, page 83-88 (Literary retrospect of the departed great, by a middle-aged man; discusses author "Blanco White," that is, Joseph Blanco White)