Titles by John Hall Stevenson

1718 – 1785

Country gentleman of inherited means and a writer.

Bio

Stevenson was born to a family sympathetic to the Jacobite cause. His mother was the sister and heiress of Lawson Trotter of Skelton Castle in Cleveland, Yorkshire. He was educated at Cambridge but did not matriculate. He did the grand tour of Europe as a young man where he acquired a taste for poetry and literature. To these pursuits, he dedicated his time, but he was also critical of those who supported rebellion.

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Titles

An Essay upon the King’s Friends, with an Account of Some Discoveries Made in Italy, and Found in a Virgil, Concerning the Tories. To Dr. S—–l J—–n

John Hall Stevenson

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