11 Facts About John Adolphus

John Adolphus's grandfather had been domestic physician to Frederick the Great, and wrote a French romance, Histoire des Diables Modernes.

John Adolphus's father lived for a time in London supported by a wealthy uncle, who provided the son with education, and sent him at the age of fifteen to be placed in the office of his agent for some estates in St Kitts.

John Adolphus was admitted an attorney in 1790, but after a few years began to write.

John Adolphus entered the Inner Temple, and in 1807 he was called to the bar.

John Adolphus joined the home circuit, and devoted himself specially to criminal work.

John Adolphus wrote Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution and History of England from the Accession of George III to the Conclusion of Peace in 1783, and other historical and biographical works.

John Adolphus acquired the friendship of Archdeacon Coxe by helping him in the Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole.

John Adolphus wrote the memoirs in the British Cabinet, a series of portraits of more or less distinguished Englishmen and Englishwomen, from Margaret of Richmond to the second Lord Hardwicke.

In 1803 John Adolphus published a History of France from 1790 to the Peace of Amiens, and a pamphlet, Reflections on the Causes of the present Rupture with France, in vindication of the policy of the English government.

John Adolphus's history had gone through four editions when, in his seventieth year, Adolphus began the task of continuing it to the death of George III.

John Adolphus wrote several chapters of Charles Rivington's Annual Register and papers for the British Critic.