Dudley Costello

Dudley Costello (20 July 1803 – 30 September 1865) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, journalist and novelist.

He was educated for the army at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and served for a short time in India, British North America, and the West Indies.

He left the army in 1828, and then passed some years in Paris, where he met Baron Cuvier, who employed him as a draughtsman in the preparation of his Règne animal.

In 1846 he took the same post Daily News, and for the last twenty years of his life he was sub-editor of the Examiner.

As a travel writer, Costello produced A Tour through the Valley of the Meuse (1845) and Piedmont and Italy, from the Alps to the Tiber (1859–1861).