Quotes:Jerdan, William

Zirkoff, Boris

Jerdan, William. London journalist of Scottish birth, b. 1782 at Kelso; d. 1869. Left his native place for a writer’s office in Edinburgh. 439 Went to London, 1806, to engage in newspaper work. Made himself famous as the reporter who apprehended Spencer Perceval’s assassin in the lobby of the House of Commons. Editor of the Literary Gazette, 1817-50; sole owner of it since 1842. In intimate association with leading literary men of the time. Helped to establish Royal Society of Literature, 1821. Author of: Autobiography, London, 1852-53, 4 vols. 8vo;—Men I Have Known. London, 1866, 8vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, pp. 438-439