6 Nov 2009
Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was born in Perth, Scotland and at the age of sixteen was employed as the private secretary to William Cockerill, an IronMaster based in Belgium. He returned to London in 1832, and became an active journalist for newspapers of the period, and was eventually promoted to being the assistant editor of the Morning Chronicle, and later editor of the Illustrated London News. There were outbreaks of Cholera in London in 1849 and again in 1854. Mackays poetry was published during his own lifetime, and indeed was quite popular. Two years before his death he published his autobiography, which encapsulated a sufficiently 'big' life to require two volumes.
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