Jesse Edward

Jesse, Edward, the son of a clergyman, was born at Bewdley, Worcestershire, in 1780. He was fortunate enough to become private secretary to Lord Dartmouth, and thus held a number of public offices until 1830, when he retired on a pension and devoted himself to literature. Anecdotes of Dogs (1846) was his first successful book. Favourite Haunts and Rural Studies followed in 1847; but his most popular works were the annotated editions of Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, and White's Natural History of Selborne. He died in 1868.