William Hazlitt

Who was William Hazlitt?

William Hazlitt was an English lawyer, author, and translator, best known for his Classical Gazetteer and for overseeing the posthumous publication and republication of many of the works of his father, the critic William Hazlitt.

The younger Hazlitt stayed on good terms with both parents despite their separation. As a young man he began to write for the Morning Chronicle, and in 1833 he married Catherine Reynell. In 1844 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and for more than thirty years he held the position of registrar in the court of bankruptcy, from which he retired two years before his death in Addlestone, Surrey.