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Doblado, Leucadio, 1775-1841

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Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ6574.W5
Personal name headingDoblado, Leucadio, 1775-1841
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See alsoReal identity: White, Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841
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Birth date1775-07-11
Death date1841-05-20
Place of birthSeville (Spain)
Place of deathLiverpool (England)
Profession or occupationAuthors Editors Novelists
Found inOxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 21 December 2017 (Joseph Blanco White, formerly José María Blanco y Crespo; author; born 11 July 1775 in the calle Jamerdana, Seville; his paternal grandfather, William White, emigrated from Waterford to Andalusia at the beginning of the eighteenth century and established an import-export business in Seville; his father, also William White, adopted the Spanish form of his name, Guillermo Blanco; Joseph Blanco White lived in England from 1810-1832; while there he set up and edited a Spanish-language political journal, El Español; he worked for the Foreign Office, giving reports on South American affairs; he studied to become Anglican clergy; he wrote a series for the New monthly magazine titled "Letters from Spain," using the pseudonym Don Leucadio Doblado; he wrote the novel Vargas: a tale of Spain; he became editor of Variedades, a London magazine; he wrote Practical and internal evidence against Catholicism, and The poor man's preservative against popery; he briefly lived in Ireland; he died in Liverpool on 20 May 1841)
Associated languagespa eng