John Rutter Chorley

John Rutter Chorley (* 1807 in Blackley Hurst, Lancashire , † June 29, 1867 in London ) was a British author, bibliophile , Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

John Rutter Chorley was the older brother of the author and critic Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872). In addition to his job in the railway administration, he trained as a private scholar. In contact with George Ticknor , Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera (1815–1872) and the British Museum (to which he left his treasures) he collected editions of the Spanish theater, which he provided with scholarly notes, and thus became a forerunner of British Hispanic studies .

Thomas Carlyle was one of his friends .

Works

• (Assistance) Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera y Leirado: Catálogo bibliográfico y biográfico del teatro antiguo Español, desde sus origenes hasta mediados del siglo XVIII . Madrid 1860
• Catálogo de comedias y autos de Frey Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, compuesta en lengua castellana . Corregido y adicionado por Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera. In: Comedias escogidas de Frey Lope Félix de Vega Carpio , 4, 1860, pp. 535–558 and Madrid 1861
• The wife's litany. A winter night's dream. Ballads and other pieces in verse . London 1865

literature

• Catalog of the Select Library of the late John Rutter Chorley comprising works on English, French, German, Italian and Spanish Romance literature which will be sold on Wednesday, November 27th, 1867
• Richard Garnett: Chorley, John Rutter . In: Dictionary of National Biography , 10
• Hugo Albert Rennert : Bibliography of the dramatic works of Lope de Vega Carpio based upon the catalog of John Rutter Chorley . New York / Paris 1915
• John Callan James Metford : An early Liverpool Hispanist: John Rutter Chorley . In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies , 25, 100, 1948, pp. 247-259

Web links

• archive.spectator.co.uk (review, English)
• Literature by and about John Rutter Chorley in the WorldCat bibliographic database