American lawyer, journalist and author, born in Philadelphia, PA, on the 29th of June 1819. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1839. He entered the profession of law in Philadelphia in 1842, and was elected a member of the New Jersey state legislature in 1863 and 1864. In 1890 he was elected Representative from the sixth Congressional district of New Jersey, and was re-elected in 1892. Mr. English began in his youth to contribute verses and prose sketches to the press, and, while yet a young man, wrote Ben Bolt, a favorite ballad which had a second lease of life conferred on it when du Maurier put its melodious words into the mouth of his heroine in Trilby. A series of his ballads recounting battles of the American Revolution were published in Harper’s Weekly. He is also author of the novels Ambrose Fecit; Walter Woolfe; etc. He died on the 1st of April 1902.
