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SYNOPSIS BY CONTRIBUTOR
BRAND, Rev. John [Fitz-John][13] (1743-1808): rector of St. George's, Southwark; brother of the radical feminist Hannah Brand; rabid Tory, bitter opponent of Dissenters, and "profound mathematician" (GM 78-ii [1808]: 1134), who published political and financial pamphlets and supplied the British Critic as well as the Anti-Jacobin Review with articles on finance and political economy.
BC contributions: 9 (1797): 284-295 [?]; 19 (1802): 268-279, 374-381, 580-588; 20 (1802): 329-330.
ELLIS, George (1753-1815): diplomat, poet, and antiquarian; author of Specimens of Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances in Metre; contributor to the Rolliad; collaborator with George Canning and John Hookham Frere in launching the Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner and later the Quarterly Review, to which Ellis would be a steady contributor.
BC contributions: 19 (1802): 570-576; 20 (1802): 8-13.
GLEIG, George (1753-1840): bishop of Brechin and primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church; successful campaigner for the lifting of the penal laws that restricted Scottish Episcopacy and for a full partnership between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of England; co-editor of the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and contributor to a variety of periodicals.
BC contributions: 42 (1813): 343-359, 448-461, 554-581.
HELLINS, Rev. John (d. 1827): vicar of Potterspury, Northants.; self-taught mathematician; author of a number of papers on mathematics and astronomy published in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions and contributor of specialized reviews of mathematical works to the British Critic between 1795 and 1814 (GM 98-i [1828]: 181).
BC contributions: 6 (1795): 413-418; 21 (1803): 272-284; 23 (1804): 143-156, 489-494; 24 (1804): 653-660; 25 (1805): 141-147; 38 (1811): 622-628; 42 (1813): 502-512.
NARES, Rev. Robert (1753-1829): canon residentiary of Lichfield and archdeacon of Stafford; philologist; Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum; co-conductor and principal editor of the British Critic, 1793-1813, in which capacity he supplied the prefaces to the 42 volumes of the first series and moderated the influence of Beloe and his High-Church friends upon the periodical's religious policy.
BC contributions: 1 (1793): i-xii; 2 (1793): iii-xvii; 3 (1794): iii-xxi; 4 (1794): iii-xxi; 5 (1795): i-xvi; 6 (1795): i-xvi; 7 (1796): i-xx; 8 (1796): i-xx; 9 (1797): i-xix; 10 (1797): i-xxii; 11 (1798): i-xvi; 12 (1798): i-xvi; 13 (1799): i-xix; 14 (1799): i-xviii; 15 (1800): i-xxii; 16 (1800): i-xxii; 17 (1801): i-xix; 18 (1801): i-xx, 529 [concluding sentence of 524-529]; 19 (1802): i-xv; 20 (1802): i-xxi, 295-298; 21 (1803): i-xvi, 406-411; 22 (1803): i-xvii; 23 (1804): iii-xix; 24 (1804): iii-xx, 231-243; 25 (1805): iii-xix, 98 [?]; 26 (1805): iii-xx; 27 (1806): iii-xvi; 28 (1806): iii-xix; 29 (1807): iii-xv; 30 (1807): iii-xix; 31 (1808): iii-xix; 32 (1808): iii-xviii; 33 (1809): iii-xix; 34 (1809): iii-xxiii; 35 (1810): iii-xix; 36 (1810): iii-xx; 37 (1811): iii-xx; 38 (1811): iii-xix; 39 (1812): iii-xvi; 40 (1812): iii-xx; 41 (1813): iii-xx; 42 (1813): iii-xxiii.
PARR, Rev. Samuel (1747-1825): rector of Wadenhoe, Northants.; schoolmaster, preacher, and raconteur; "the Whig Dr. Johnson," whose large girth and bushy wig were caricatured by cartoonists and whose habits of supporting reformist causes, flogging schoolboys, and detesting Evangelicals earned him equal fame; the only known contributor to the British Critic who proudly swam against the conservative tide.
BC contributions: 3 (1794): 48-61, 121-139, 302-330, 412-424; 5 (1795): 58-62 [?], 148-156 [?], 344-358 [?].
PERCY, Thomas, bishop of Dromore, County Down (1729-1811): ballad collector chiefly known for his publication in 1765 of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, which exerted a significant influence upon British readers' growing interest in primitive verse and thus upon early Romanticism.
BC contributions: 16 (1800): 345-361; 18 (1801): 286-295, 359-365, 524-529 [with Robert Nares, who wrote the concluding sentence, p. 529]; 25 (1805): 99.
POLWHELE, Rev. Richard (1760-1838): vicar of Manaccan, Cornwall; author of West Country histories, sets of literary memoirs, and the anti-feminist poem The Unsex'd Females; contributor to numerous periodicals, particularly the Anti-Jacobin Review, in which he used his critic's license to parade his Church-and-king sentiments and denounce radicals who "muttered sedition from their lurking-holes and scattered, in dark corners, the seeds of anarchy."[14]
BC contributions: 34 (1809): 173-177 [?], 616-621; 35 (1810): 1-15, 112-120; 42 (1813): 586-593.
PORSON, Richard (1759-1808): regius professor of Greek at Cambridge; author of critical editions of Euripides; best known in his lifetime for his contentious quarrel with Archdeacon George Travis, whose assertion of the authenticity of 1 John 5: 7 Porson attacked in Letters to Archdeacon Travis in Answer to Defence of the Three Heavenly Witnesses.
BC contribution: 17 (1801): 453-460.
STODDART, Sir John (1773-1856): journalist and jurist; writer for The Times, 1810-16 (under the signature "J.S."); founder and editor of The New Times, in which capacity he was attacked remorselessly by William Hone and Hone's caricaturist George Cruikshank, who satirized Stoddart as "Dr. Slop"; later chief justice and justice of the vice-admiralty court on Malta.
BC contribution: 17 (1801): 125-131.
VINCENT, Rev. William (1739-1815): headmaster of Westminster School, where he gained dubious distinction in 1792 for expelling Robert Southey for daring to write The Flagellant as an exposé of Vincent's notorious penchant for flogging; dean of Westminster; widely respected classical scholar, particularly in the study of geography and ancient voyages; the British Critic's leading opponent of Jacob Bryant and Bryant's fellow Troy skeptics.
BC contributions: 2 (1793): 1-6 [?], 146-152 [?], 301-309 [?]; 3 (1794): 510-517, 620-629; 10 (1797): 221-233, 362-374; 12 (1798): 632-645; 13 (1799): 116-135; 15 (1800): 69; 16 (1800): 418-424; 22 (1803): 545-549; 24 (1804): 665-679 [?]; 25 (1805): 46-58 [?], 349-361; 36 (1810): 209-228 [?]; 38 (1811): 484-497 [?], 603-616 [?]; 40 (1812): 97-110, 616-624.
WHITAKER, Rev. John (1735-1808): rector of Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall; antiquary and author of a badly flawed History of Manchester; writer for the Anti-Jacobin Review, the English Review, and the Gentleman's Magazine as well as the British Critic; fiery opponent of Jacobins and Dissenters,
BC contributions: 1 (1793): 109 [?]; 8 (1796): 81-84; 9 (1797): 241-246, 354-363, 535-547, 591-603, 604-615, 699; 11 (1798): 13-17, 140-148, 345-358; 13 (1799): 97-108, 275-284, 356-362, 410-419; 14 (1799): 639-649 [?]; 15 (1800): 21-31 [?], 260-263; 16 (1800): 530-537.
WHITE, Rev. Joseph (1745-1814): Laudian professor of Arabic and regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford; specialist as well in Syriac and Persian studies; deliverer of the controversial 1784 Bampton Lecture, which gave rise to charges of plagiarism that would seriously damage his reputation; reviewer of various publications in Hebrew and oriental literature for the British Critic.[16]
BC contributions: 2 (1793): 43-51 [?]; 4 (1794): 413-416 [?]; 8 (1796): 446-449 [?], 577-587; 9 (1797): 667-669 [?]; 11 (1798): 603-606 [?]; 14 (1799): 38-45 [?], 121-127 [?]; 15 (1800): 354-356 [?]; 17 (1801): 324-325 [?]; 19 (1802): 1-15 [?], 134-154 [?], 283-293 [?], 343-355 [?], 524-530 [?], 623-631 [?]; 20 (1802): 53-61 [?], 165-171 [?], 641-645; 26 (1805): 287-292; 27 (1806): 53-57 [?]; 28 (1806): 465-479 [?], 608-619 [?]; 29 (1807): 134-147 [?], 368-375 [?], 496-508 [?]; 30 (1807): 15-23; 31 (1808): 22-25.
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