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Author: Milton, Matthew Smith

Biography:

MILTON, Matthew Smith (1811-38: ancestry.co.uk)

Born in Chatham, Kent, to Sarah (Wheeler) and Thomas Milton; there is little other certain biographical information. He met John Walker Ord (q.v.) in Edinburgh so probably he was attending university there (most likely studying medicine). He and Ord left Edinburgh under a cloud after they published some verses satirising the authorities. In London they established the short-lived Metropolitan Journal of Literature and, not long before Milton’s death, the Metropolitan Conservative Journal. The title page of his Ocean Bride names him as author of The Broken Heart which he had published anonymously in 1833. (W. H.  Burnett, Old Cleveland [1886]; ancestry.co.uk 21 May 2020)

 

Other Names:

  • M. S. Milton
 

Books written (3):

Edinburgh/ London/ Dublin: William Tait/ Simpkin and Marshall/ John Cumming, 1833
Edinburgh/ London/ Dublin: William Tait/ Simpkin and Marshall/ John Cumming, 1834
London/ Edinburgh/ Dublin: Baldwin and Cradock/ Tait/ Cumming, 1835