His literary connections included time at Charterhouse with William Makepeace Thackeray (they fought); the character George Warrington in Pendennis is said to be based on Venables.[5][6] A friendship with Alfred, Lord Tennyson arose from Cambridge days.[7] He wrote an anonymous book of verse Joint Compositions (1848) with Henry Lushington. He was an early and favourable reviewer of Thomas Carlyle, another friend.[8]
^"Venables, George Stovin (VNBS828GS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge(PDF). London: MacMillan & Co. 1859. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
george, stovin, venables, 1810, 1888, born, wales, journalist, barrister, english, father, richard, venables, vicar, nantmel, then, archdeacon, carmarthen, educated, eton, college, charterhouse, school, jesus, college, cambridge, cambridge, chancellor, gold, m. George Stovin Venables 1810 1888 born in Wales was a journalist and a barrister at the English bar His father was Richard Venables vicar of Nantmel and then archdeacon of Carmarthen 1 He was educated at Eton College Charterhouse School and Jesus College Cambridge 2 At Cambridge he won the Chancellor s Gold Medal for poetry in 1831 3 and was a Cambridge Apostle from 1832 4 He became a Fellow of Jesus College He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1836 and was in practice for over 40 years He also wrote much journalism from the mid 1850s as a leader writer for The Times and the Saturday Review 5 His literary connections included time at Charterhouse with William Makepeace Thackeray they fought the character George Warrington in Pendennis is said to be based on Venables 5 6 A friendship with Alfred Lord Tennyson arose from Cambridge days 7 He wrote an anonymous book of verse Joint Compositions 1848 with Henry Lushington He was an early and favourable reviewer of Thomas Carlyle another friend 8 Notes edit DILLWYN DILLWYN LLEWELYN DILLWYN VENABLES LLEWELYN Dictionary of Welsh Biography Aberystwyth National Library of Wales 1959 Retrieved 11 April 2020 Venables George Stovin VNBS828GS A Cambridge Alumni Database University of Cambridge A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor s Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge PDF London MacMillan amp Co 1859 Retrieved 11 April 2020 The Apostles a b David Carroll George Eliot The Critical Heritage 1995 p 224 In Anthony Trollope s biography The Carlyle Letters Online Archived from the original on 21 July 2011 Retrieved 28 October 2007 Jules Paul Seigel Thomas Carlyle The Critical Heritage 1995 p 467 References editConcise Dictionary of National Biography nbsp nbsp This United Kingdom law related biographical article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George Stovin Venables amp oldid 1153446662, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
