William Hazlitt (26 September 181123 February 1893) was an English lawyer, author, and translator, best known for his '' Classical Gazetteer'' and for overseeing the posthumous publication and republication of many of the works of his father, the critic

William Hazlitt William Hazlitt (10 April 177818 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English lan ...

. The younger Hazlitt stayed on good terms with both parents despite their separation. As a young man he began to write for the ''

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'', and in 1833 he married Catherine Reynell. In 1844 he was called to the bar at the

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, and for more than thirty years he held the position of

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in the Court of Bankruptcy, from which he retired two years before his death in

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, Surrey. Besides the ''Classical Gazetteer'', he wrote legal works such as ''The Registration of Deeds in England, its Past Progress and Present Position'' (1851) and ''A Manual of the Law of Maritime Warfare'' (1854), and produced many translations, including Victor Hugo's ''Notre-Dame: A Tale of the Ancien Régime'' (1833), Michelet's ''History of the Roman Republic'' (1847), ''Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther'' (1848)
''Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, During the Years 1844-5-6''
by

Évariste Régis Huc Évariste Régis Huc, C.M., also known as the Abbé Huc (1813–1860), was a French Catholic priest, Lazarite missionary, and traveller. He became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China, Mongolia (then known as " Tartary"), and especiall ...

(1852), ''Louis XVII: His Life—His Suffering—His Death: The Captivity of the Royal Family in the Temple'', by A. de Beauchesne (1853), Guizot's ''General History of Civilization in Europe, from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution'' (1857), and the ''Works of Michael de Montaigne'' (1859).Library of Congress catalog. His son,

William Carew Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt (22 August 18348 September 1913), known professionally as W. Carew Hazlitt, was an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer. He was the son of the barrister and registrar William Hazlitt, a grandson of the essayist ...

, also became a well-known writer.

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* (Translator) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hazlitt, William English barristers Members of the Middle Temple English legal writers 1811 births 1893 deaths William Hazlitt English translators Translators of Victor Hugo