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About William Norcott
William Norcott was an Irish lawyer and satirist. He has been credited as the author of several works, such as The Metropolis, which created a sensation in Dublin in the early 1800s. He was regarded as self-indulgent and, according to contemporary accounts, ended his life in poverty in Constantinople, where he was decapitated and his body thrown into the sea.
Everything about William Norcott →- Occupation
- satirist, lawyer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1770
- Died
- 1820