William White (journalist) explained

William White (1807 – 11 February 1882), was a 19th-century British pamphleteer and parliamentary sketch writer.

Biography

The character of Zachariah Coleman in Hale White’s The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane, published in 1887, "is a tribute to William White... [Zachariah Coleman's] love of Byron, and his admiration for Cobbett, came from William White."^{[1] [2] [3]}

William White died in Carshalton, Surrey, on 11 February 1882.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: White, William (1807–1882). E. J. Feuchtwanger. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004.
2. Valentine Cunningham, Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1976, pp. 272-273.
3. William White, The Inner Life of the House of Commons, edited with a preface by Justin McCarthy, MP, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.
4. Obituary, The Times, 6 March 1882, p. 7.