Octavian Blewitt
1810–84
Writer and literary administrator. After spending time in Italy, wrote two handbooks for travellers. Secretary of the Royal Literary Fund, 1839–84. Edited the news section of Gardeners’ Chronicle for twenty-nine years.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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