John Corry (
fl.
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1825) was an Irish
topographer
Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the land forms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps.
Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary scie ...
and historian writer. Among his other works he wrote and published ''The Life of George Washington'', first published in 1800.
Life
Corry, who was self-taught, was born in the north of
Ireland
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. As an adult he went to
Dublin
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, where he was a journalist. About 1792 he moved to
London
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, as a professional writer. His history after 1825 is unknown.
Works
Most of Corry's works were published anonymously. Besides editing a periodical, he furnished the letterpress for the ''History of Liverpool'' (1810), published by Thomas Troughton; wrote vol. i. of the ''History of Bristol'', 2 vols. (1816), the second volume being supplied by
John Evans; and a ''History of Macclesfield'' (1817). More ambitious was the ''History of Lancashire'', 2 vols. (1825), with a dedication to George IV.
It was, however, derivative of a work of
Matthew Gregson
Matthew Gregson (3 August 1749''Liverpool, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1659–1812'' – 25 September 1824) was an English antiquary.
Life
Gregson, son of Thomas Gregson, shipbuilder, of Liverpool, previously of Wha ...
, of 1817.
His book ''The Detector of Quackery'' (1802) was a criticism of medical frauds and
quackery
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, ...
of his day.
[Keen, Paul. (2012). ''Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800''. Cambridge University Press. pp. 194-195. ]
Publications
* ''Poems'',
ublin? 17—.
* ''The Adventures of Felix and Rosarito'', London, 1782.
* ''The Life of George Washington'', London, 1800.
''The Detector of Quackery'' London, 1802 (new edition under the title o
''Quack Doctors Dissected'' London, Gloucester
rinted 1810.
* ''A Satirical View of London'', London, 1801, which came to a fourth edition in 1809.
* ''Edwy and Bertha'', London, 1802.
* ''Memoirs of Alfred Berkeley'', London, 1802.
* ''Tales for the Amusement of Young Persons'', London, 1802.
* ''The Life of William Cowper'', London, 1803.
* ''The Life of Joseph Priestley'', Birmingham, 1804 (2nd edition in the same year).
* ''Sebastian and Zeila'', London
805?
* ''The Suicide; or, the Progress of Error'', London
805?
* ''The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer'', 3 vols., London, 1808.
* ''Strictures on the Expedience of the Addingtonian Extinguisher''
.e. Lord Sidmouth's Protestant Dissenting Bill Macclesfield, 1811.
* ''The Elopement … Third edition (the History of Eliza, &c.)'', London
810?
* ''The English Metropolis; or, London in the year 1820'', London, 1820.
* ''Memoir of John Collier'' ("
Tim Bobbin"), prefixed to an edition of his ''Works'',
anchester? 1820? and also in the edition published at Manchester in 1862.
Notes
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18th-century Irish writers
18th-century Irish male writers
19th-century Irish writers
Critics of alternative medicine
1825 births
Year of death missing