Thomas Forbes Kelsall

Thomas Forbes Kelsall (1799 – September 1872), was an English lawyer and literary figure.

Kelsall was born in Barbados, the son of a plantation owner.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes was sent to lodge with Kelsall in at 3 Houndwell Lane, Southampton before he went up to Oxford. Kelsall became very fond of Beddoes and corresponded with him all his life. He edited some of his published work, including the notable Death's Jest Book: or, The Fool's Tragedy, in 1850. He wrote the obituary of Beddoes that appeared in the Fortnightly Review, vol. 18, p. 75. Beddoes left all is literary remains with Kelsall 'to do as he saw fit' Kelsall's memoir of Beddoes which he published in 1851 with the posthumous works remains the most insightful we have.

He married Frances Anne Harrison on 21 April 1829.

Books published

• Beddoes, T. L. Death's Jest Book: or, The Fool's Tragedy, 1850
• Beddoes, T. L. Poems of the late Thomas Lovell Beddoes, 1851
• Beddoes, T. L. Poems, Posthumous and Collected, 1851

See also

Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society website

References

• • "The Anatomy of Revolution: Beddoes and Buchner" by Frederick Burwick Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 6, Apr., 1971 (Apr., 1971), pp. 5–12
• Lytton Strachey, Books and Characters art. on Beddoes.
• Dictionary of National Biography, (article on Beddoes) 1911. v. 4, p. 91
• birth and death dates of T F Kelsall