Thomas Leland

Thomas Leland
Thomas Hickey, Portrait de Thomas Leland, Dublin, Galerie nationale d'Irlande.
Born1722 
Died1785  (aged 62–63)

Thomas Leland (1722–1785) was an Irish Anglican priest, a historian, translator and academic and the author of the early gothic novel Longsword, Earl of Salisbury: An Historical Romance, published in 1762. Longsword is set in Gascony and in England, during the reign of Henry III of England.

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