Joseph Blanco White

He had Irish ancestry and was the son of the merchant Guillermo Blanco (alias White, an English viceconsul, who had established himself in Seville during the reign of Fernando VI) and María Gertrudis Crespo y Neve.

In Seville, Spain, he had worked with Melchor de Jovellanos, an adviser to the king who advocated reform.

There he ultimately entered the Anglican Church, having studied theology at Oxford and made the friendship of Thomas Arnold, John Henry Newman the Reverend E.T.

In its pages, he commented on the course of the insurgency based on information from Spanish America and British sources.

[4] His other principal writings include Doblado's Letters from Spain (1822) (under the pseudonym of "Don Leucado Doblado", and written in part at Holland House in London[5]), Evidence against Catholicism (1825), Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (2 vols., 1834)[6] (a riposte to Thomas Moore's satirical commentary upon the conceits of the Second Reformation),[7] and Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy (1835).

when our first parent knew"), which was dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge on its appearance in the Bijou for 1828 and has since found its way into several anthologies.