Not many details are known per: https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1766/.
Per http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1072 born in 1802 in Cheltenham. Also authored The Boatman of the Bosphorus (1854). MarkLSteadman (talk) 04:28, 31 March 2020 (UTC)