John Gorton

Who is John Gorton?

John Gorton was an English writer, known as a compiler of reference works.

His works include:

a translation of Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1824;

A General Biographical Dictionary, new edition, with a supplement by Cyrus Redding, bringing the work as far as 1850, in 4 vols. 1851);

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland, with Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright, and maps by S. Hall, 3 vols. 1831–3, first published in separate parts;

a poem in blank verse, Tubal to Seba, the Negro Suicide, 1797; and

a pamphlet entitled ‘A Solution of that great Scriptural Difficulty the Genealogy of Jesus … with a treatise on the Fall of Adam.’