and necessitated his going abroad.  He travelled in Italy with Lord John Russell, and visited Byron.  Thereafter he settled for a year or two in Paris, where he wrote The Loves of the Angels (1823).  On the death of Byron his memoirs came into the hands of Moore, who, in the exercise of a discretion committed to him, destroyed them.  He afterwards wrote a Life of Byron (1830), which gave rise to much criticism and controversy, and he also ed. his works.  His last imaginative work was The Epicurean (1827).  Thereafter he confined himself almost entirely to prose, and pub. Lives of Sheridan (1827), and Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831).  His last work, written in failing health, was a History of Ireland for Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia, which had little merit.  Few poets have ever enjoyed greater popularity with the public, or the friendship of more men distinguished in all departments of life.  This latter was largely owing to his brilliant social qualities, but his genuine and independent character had also a large share in it.  He left behind him a mass of correspondence and autobiographical matter which he committed to his friend Lord John (afterwards Earl) Russell for publication.  They appeared in 8 vols. (1852-56).

Memoir, Journal, and Correspondence, by Lord John Russell (1856).

MORE, HANNAH (1745-1833).—­Miscellaneous and religious writer, was one of the five daughters of a schoolmaster at Stapleton, Gloucestershire.  The family removed to Bristol, where Hannah began her literary efforts.  Some early dramas, including The Search after Happiness and the Inflexible Captive brought her before the public, and she went to London in 1774, where, through her friend, Garrick, she was introduced to Johnson, Burke, and the rest of that circle, by whom she was highly esteemed.  After publishing some poems, now forgotten, and some dramas, she resolved to devote herself to efforts on behalf of social and religious amelioration, in which she was eminently successful, and exercised a wide and salutary influence.  Her works written in pursuance of these objects are too numerous to mention.  They included Hints towards forming the Character of a young Princess (1805), written at the request of the Queen for the benefit of the Princess Charlotte, Coelebs in search of a Wife (1809), and a series of short tales, the Cheap Repository, among which was the well-known Shepherd of Salisbury Plain.  This enterprise, which had great success, led to the formation of the Religious Tract Society.  The success of Miss M.’s literary labours enabled her to pass her later years in ease, and her sisters having also retired on a competency made by conducting a boarding-school in Bristol, the whole family resided on a property called Barley Grove, which they had purchased, where they carried on with much success philanthropic and educational work among the people of the neighbouring district of Cheddar.  Few persons have devoted their talents more assiduously to the well-being of their fellow-creatures, or with a greater measure of success.