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Bolton Corney
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'''Bolton Corney''' (1784–1870) was an English army officer and official, known as a critic and antiquary.
==Life==
Corney was born at [[Greenwich]] on 28 April 1784, and baptised in the parish church of St. Alphage. He obtained in 1803 a commission as ensign in the [[28th Foot]]. Later he was at Greenwich, where he held the post of first clerk in the steward's department at the [[Royal Hospital]]. He retired in 1845 or 1846, when he married, and moved to [[Barnes, Surrey]], where he lived to his death on 30 August 1870, surrounded by his books.<ref name="DNB"></ref>
Corney was a member of the council of the [[Shakspere Society]] and the [[Camden Society]], and an auditor of the [[Royal Literary Fund]]. He engaged in controversy with [[Anthony Panizzi]] of the [[British Museum]].<ref name="DNB"/>
==Works==
Corney's works were:<ref name="DNB"/>
* ''Researches and Conjectures on the Bayeux Tapestry'' [Greenwich, 1836], London 1838, 8vo. He contended that the tapestry was not executed till 1205, and his view was adopted by [[John Lingard]]. Edouard Lambert published a reply to Corney under the title of ''Réfutation des objections faites contre l'antiquité de la Tapisserie de Bayeux'',' Bayeux, 1841.
* ''Curiosities of Literature by I. D'Israeli illustrated'', Greenwich [1837], criticism of [[Isaac D'Israeli]] who replied in ''The Illustrator illustrated'' [1838], prompting Corney to bring out a second edition, with ''Ideas on Controversy, deduced from the practice of a Veteran; and adapted to the meanest capacity''.
* ''On the new General Biographical Dictionary: a Specimen of Amateur Criticism, in letters to Mr. Sylvanus Urban'', Lond. 1839, privately printed. Letters originally published in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', criticising the work of [[Hugh James Rose]].
* ''Comments on the Evidence of Antonio Panizzi, Esq., before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the British Museum, A.D. 1860''; privately printed.
* ''The Sonnets of William Shakspere: a Critical Disquisition suggested by a recent discovery' (by V. E. Philarète Chasles, relating to the inscription which precedes the sonnets in the edition of 1609) [Lond. 1862]; privately printed.
*''An Argument on the assumed Birthday of Shakspere: reduced to shape, 1864''; privately printed.
He edited:<ref name="DNB"/>
* From manuscript ''An Essay on Landscape Gardening'' by [[Sir John Dalrymple]], Greenwich, 1823;
* ''The Seasons'' by James Thomson, with illustrations designed by the Etching Club, 1842;
* [[Oliver Goldsmith]]'s ''Poetical Works, illustrated, with a Memoir'', 1846;
* ''The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands in 1604'' (for the [[Hakluyt Society]]), 1855;
* ''Of the Conduct of the Understanding, by John Locke'', 1859.
Corney was a contributor to ''[[Notes and Queries]]'' and ''[[The Athenæum]]''; and he made collections on [[William Caxton]], which he provided to [[William Blades]].<ref name="DNB"/>
==Family==
Around 1846 Corney married Henrietta Mary Pridham, eldest daughter of Richard Pridham R.N. of [[Plymouth]]. He left an only son, Bolton Glanvill Corney, born 1851, of the Royal College of Surgeons, who was appointed government medical officer in Fiji.<ref name="ODNB"></ref>
==Notes==
==External links==
;Attribution
[[Category:1784 births]]
[[Category:1870 deaths]]
[[Category:British Army officers]]
[[Category:English writers]]
[[Category:English antiquarians]]
==Life==
Corney was born at [[Greenwich]] on 28 April 1784, and baptised in the parish church of St. Alphage. He obtained in 1803 a commission as ensign in the [[28th Foot]]. Later he was at Greenwich, where he held the post of first clerk in the steward's department at the [[Royal Hospital]]. He retired in 1845 or 1846, when he married, and moved to [[Barnes, Surrey]], where he lived to his death on 30 August 1870, surrounded by his books.<ref name="DNB"></ref>
Corney was a member of the council of the [[Shakspere Society]] and the [[Camden Society]], and an auditor of the [[Royal Literary Fund]]. He engaged in controversy with [[Anthony Panizzi]] of the [[British Museum]].<ref name="DNB"/>
==Works==
Corney's works were:<ref name="DNB"/>
* ''Researches and Conjectures on the Bayeux Tapestry'' [Greenwich, 1836], London 1838, 8vo. He contended that the tapestry was not executed till 1205, and his view was adopted by [[John Lingard]]. Edouard Lambert published a reply to Corney under the title of ''Réfutation des objections faites contre l'antiquité de la Tapisserie de Bayeux'',' Bayeux, 1841.
* ''Curiosities of Literature by I. D'Israeli illustrated'', Greenwich [1837], criticism of [[Isaac D'Israeli]] who replied in ''The Illustrator illustrated'' [1838], prompting Corney to bring out a second edition, with ''Ideas on Controversy, deduced from the practice of a Veteran; and adapted to the meanest capacity''.
* ''On the new General Biographical Dictionary: a Specimen of Amateur Criticism, in letters to Mr. Sylvanus Urban'', Lond. 1839, privately printed. Letters originally published in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', criticising the work of [[Hugh James Rose]].
* ''Comments on the Evidence of Antonio Panizzi, Esq., before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the British Museum, A.D. 1860''; privately printed.
* ''The Sonnets of William Shakspere: a Critical Disquisition suggested by a recent discovery' (by V. E. Philarète Chasles, relating to the inscription which precedes the sonnets in the edition of 1609) [Lond. 1862]; privately printed.
*''An Argument on the assumed Birthday of Shakspere: reduced to shape, 1864''; privately printed.
He edited:<ref name="DNB"/>
* From manuscript ''An Essay on Landscape Gardening'' by [[Sir John Dalrymple]], Greenwich, 1823;
* ''The Seasons'' by James Thomson, with illustrations designed by the Etching Club, 1842;
* [[Oliver Goldsmith]]'s ''Poetical Works, illustrated, with a Memoir'', 1846;
* ''The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands in 1604'' (for the [[Hakluyt Society]]), 1855;
* ''Of the Conduct of the Understanding, by John Locke'', 1859.
Corney was a contributor to ''[[Notes and Queries]]'' and ''[[The Athenæum]]''; and he made collections on [[William Caxton]], which he provided to [[William Blades]].<ref name="DNB"/>
==Family==
Around 1846 Corney married Henrietta Mary Pridham, eldest daughter of Richard Pridham R.N. of [[Plymouth]]. He left an only son, Bolton Glanvill Corney, born 1851, of the Royal College of Surgeons, who was appointed government medical officer in Fiji.<ref name="ODNB"></ref>
==Notes==
==External links==
;Attribution
[[Category:1784 births]]
[[Category:1870 deaths]]
[[Category:British Army officers]]
[[Category:English writers]]
[[Category:English antiquarians]]
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