Zadkiel

Zadkiel, the name assumed by Richard James Morrison, the compiler of an astrological almanac, which was started by him in 1830, and which reached a yearly sale of from 100,000 to 200,000 copies. He was a retired commander in the royal navy, a Hebraist, mathematician, and astronomer, withal a real believer in his pseudo-science, as was brought out in his action for libel against Sir E. Belcher (1863). He was born about 1794, and died on 5th February 1874. See CRYSTALLOMACY.