Author: Brewster, Edward
Biography:
BREWSTER, Edward (fl 1832)
The author has not been identified but the Lumber Troop was a London social and political club that spuriously claimed great antiquity and met in The Falcon, a Fetter Lane pub. Its members included prominent MPs and other dignitaries; William Hogarth is said to have been a member. An account of a meeting from 1832 is in Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life. According to another witness, the “troopers” were mostly famous for the tobacco they smoked and the porter they drank. (G. W. Thornbury and E. Walford, Old and New London [1880]; C. Knight, Passages of a Working Life [1864], 2: 176-77; George Oliver, History of the Masonic Persecutions [1867], 2 )
Books written (1):
London: Comrade Lee, 1832