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John Gorton (writer)
John Gorton
was an
English writer
, known as a
compiler
of
reference works
.
His works include:
A translation of Voltaire's
Dictionnaire Philosophique
, 1824;
A General Biographical Dictionary
;
A
Topographical
Dictionary
of
Great Britain and Ireland
, with Irish and
Welsh
articles
by G. N. Wright, and maps by S. Hall, 3 vols. 1831–3, first published in separate parts;
A
poem
in
blank verse
,
Tubal
to Seba, the
Negro
Suicide
, 1797; and
A pamphlet
entitled
‘A Solution of that great
Scriptural
Difficulty
the
Genealogy of Jesus
… with a treatise on the
Fall of Adam
.’