Thomas Roscoe

Thomas Roscoe (Liverpool 23 June 1791 – 24 September 1871 London) was an English author and translator.

Life

The fifth son of William Roscoe, he was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool in 1791, and educated by Dr. W. Shepherd and by Mr. Lloyd, a private tutor.

Soon after his father's financial troubles in 1816, which led to bankruptcy, Roscoe began to write in local magazines and journals, and he continued to follow literature as a profession. He died at age 80, on 24 September 1871, at Acacia Road, St. John's Wood, London. Italian Novelists, 1825, 4 vols. German Novelists, 1826, 4 vols. Spanish Novelists, 1832, 3 vols. Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter, Memoirs of Scipio de Ricci, 1828, 2 vols. Luigi Lanzi, History of Painting in Italy, 1828, 6 vols. Silvio Pellico, Imprisonments, 1833. Pellico, Duties of Men, 1834. Martín Fernández de Navarrete, Life of Cervantes, 1839 (in Murray's Family Library). Johann Georg Kohl, Travels in England, 1845.

Roscoe edited The Juvenile Keepsake, 1828–30; The Novelists' Library, with Biographical and Critical Notices, 1831–3, 17 vols.; the works of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, and Jonathan Swift (1840–9, 3 vols.), and new issues of his father's Lorenzo de' Medici and Leo the Tenth.