Childs, GEORGE WILLIAM

Childs, GEORGE WILLIAM, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 12th May 1829, became clerk in a bookstore in Philadelphia, by 1850 was head of a publishing firm, and in 1864 founded the Public Ledger. He died 2d February 1894. He devoted much of his wealth to beneficence, and he erected a memorial window in Westminster Abbey to Cowper and George Herbert, a monument to Leigh Hunt at Kensal Green, and a fountain to Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon. See his Recollections (1890).