British Critic

The British Critic: A New Review was a quarterly publication, established in 1793 as a conservative and high-church review journal riding the tide of British reaction against the French Revolution.

The Society for the Reformation of Principles, founded in 1792 by William Jones of Nayland and William Stevens, established the British Critic in 1793. Robert Nares and William Beloe, editor and assistant editor respectively, were joint proprietors with the booksellers Francis and Charles Rivington.^[1] Nares and Beloe edited the review until 1813. About 1811 the magazine was bought by Joshua Watson and Henry Handley Norris, associated with the high-church pressure group known as the Hackney Phalanx. William Van Mildert and Thomas Rennell served as editor. William Rowe Lyall served as editor 1816-17. After 1825 the review "became more narrowly theological in scope".^[2] Between 1838 and 1843 it was effectively taken over by the Tractarian movement, and edited successively by John Henry Newman and Thomas Mozley.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ Antonia Forster, ‘Beloe, William (1758–1817)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 10 Sept 2007
2. ^ Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick, ‘Rivington family (per. c.1710–c.1960)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 10 Sept 2007
3. ^ S. A. Skinner, 'Newman, the Tractarians and the British Critic, Journal of Ecclesiastical History (1999), 50: 716-759

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