Anecdotes of Dogs (Esprios Classics)

Edward Jesse (January 14 1780 - March 28 1868) English writer on natural history was born at Hutton Cranswick Yorkshire where his father was vicar of the parish. He became clerk in a government office in 1798 and for a time was secretary to Lord Dartmouth when president of the Board of Control. In 1812 he was appointed commissioner of hackney coaches and later he became deputy surveyor-general of the royal parks and palaces. The result of his interest in the habits and characteristics of animals was a series of pleasant and popular books on natural history the principal of which are as follows: Gleanings in Natural History (1832-1835) An Angler's Rambles (1836) Anecdotes of Dogs (1846) and Lectures on Natural History (1863).