ENGLISH, TIMM As DUNN ( 1 S 19-1902). An 1meriva II physician and man of letters, born in Philadelphia, Pa, English, whose family name a corrupt ion of \ inzplos. at tidied medicine in his unitive city, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1839. lie speedily gave up the practice of medicine for law, however, and Was adinitted to the Philndel phia bar in 1842. Two years afterwards he em barked in journalism in New York, and in 1813 established The Aristidean. After 1859 he prac ticed medicine at Newark, N..1. Ile was a mem ber of the New Jersey Legislature in 1863-04, and represented his district for two terms (1891 95) in the United States House of Representatives. Ile also gave nmeh attention to literature, aside from being a magazine editor and journalist. The following are the principal titles of his works, chiefly novels and poems: Zephaniah Doolittle (1838) ; Woo/fe (1842) : 1Sii: or, The Power of the 'S. P.' (1847), a semi-political
novel; Poems (1855) ; Ambrose Fecit: or, The Peer and the Painter (1869) ; American Ballads (1882) ; Boy's Book of Battle Lyrics (1885); Jacob Schuyler's Millions (1886) ; Select Poems (1804), edited by his daughter; and Fairy Stories and Wonder Tales (1897). He is prob ably most popularly known by the song "Ben Bolt," published in Willis's New York Mirror in 1843, and never highly ranked by him among his poems. As set to music by Nelson Kneass, this became widely popular in both England and America, and after a temporary obscurement was later revived through its introduction by Du Maurier into the novel Trilby (1894). "The Gal lows Goers," treating of capital punishment, also had wide circulation. English received the de gree of LL.D. from the College of William anti Nary (Virginia) in 1876.