Author. English critic and essayist. He is best known for his book "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". He also wrote "Murder Considered as one of Fine Arts" and "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth".
Author. English critic and essayist. He is best known for his book "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". He also wrote "Murder Considered as one of Fine Arts" and "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth".
Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni
Inscription
Sacred to the memory of
THOMAS DEQUINCEY
who was born at Greenhay near Manchester
August 15th 1785 and died in Edinburgh December 8th 1859.
And of MARGARET his wife who died August 7th 1837.
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Records on Ancestry
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Manchester, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1541-1812
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England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
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England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
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1851 Scotland Census
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Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1611-1861
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