John Rutter Chorley


John Rutter Chorley was an English author, bibliophile, and Hispanist.

Life

Born in Blackley Hurst near Billinge, Merseyside, John Rutter Chorley was the older brother of the author and critic Henry Fothergill Chorley. In addition to his career in railway administration as corporate secretary to the Grand Junction Railway between Liverpool and Birmingham, he worked as a private tutor. In 1845 a bequest from his uncle made him independently wealthy and he retired and moved to London. With help from George Ticknor, and experts at the British Museum, Chorley became a significant collector as a bibliophile.
Among his friends was Thomas Carlyle.

Selected works

  • with Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera y Leirado: Catálogo bibliográfico y biográfico del teatro antiguo Español, desde sus origenes hasta mediados del siglo XVIII. Madrid 1860
  • Catálogo de comedias y autos de Frey Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, compuesta en lengua castellana. Corregido y adicionado por Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera. In: Comedias escogidas de Frey Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 4, 1860, S. 535–558 und Madrid 1861
  • The wife’s litany. A winter-night’s dream. Ballads and other pieces in verse. London 1865