(1800).
Lord Alexander Gordon died in 1808.
William Hutton (1723-1815), a Birmingham bookseller, who took to literature and became a voluminous writer of poems, and of topographical works which still have their value. In his
Trip to Redcar and Coatham
(Preface, p. vi.) he says,
"I took up my pen at the advanced age of fifty-six ... I drove the quill thirty years, during which time I wrote and published thirty books."
The Battle of Bosworth Field
was published in 1788. A new edition, with additions by John Nichols, appeared in 1813. Byron's poem was never published.