Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 55: Stow-Taylor Peel. He published in 1790 'the Retro spect, or a Review of the Memorable Events of Mona, ' a satire on the Manx parliament and on the town of Douglas. The poem is Of considerable length, but lacks literary merit. In the same year he published in Liverpool 'a Sallad for the young Ladies and Gentlemen of Douglas raised by Tom the Gardener, ' and in 1791 'the Literary Quixote, ' a satire on the 'journal of Richard Townley, ' a book on the Isle of Man. In 1792 he printed an elegy in verse on Mrs. Callow and Miss M. Bacon, and in 1793 'an Elegiac Invocation of the Muses.' His last work is dated 27 April 17 96, and is an address in verse to the Duchess of Atholl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.