Westall, William, 1835-1903
Variant namesEpithet: ARA; of Add MS 38286
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x000053
Novelist, journalist.
William Westall was born in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in 1834, son of a cotton mill owner. He moved to Geneva in 1874, as foreign correpondent for The Times and editor of Swiss Times. He became British Consul in Russia and war correspondent in Crimean and Armenian Civil Wars. He was a translator of Russian literature and a writer of novels, drawing on his experiences in Lancashire, the Continent and further afield. Westall died in Heathfield, Sussex on September 9, 1903.
From the description of Letters, 1887-1903. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 50902882
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| associatedWith | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 | person |
| correspondedWith | Stepniak, S., 1851-1895 | person |
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Birth 1835-02-07
Death 1903
