William Caldwell Roscoe was an English journalist and poet.
Background
Born at Liverpool on 20 September 1823, he was son of William Stanley Roscoe and grandson of William Roscoe. His mother Hannah Eliza Caldwell, was daughter of James Caldwell of Linley Wood in Staffordshire, and a sister of Anne Marsh-Caldwell.
Education
He was educated at a private school, Saint Domingo House, near Liverpool, and then at University College, London, graduating in the University of London in 1843.
Career
Roscoe was called to the bar in 1850, but after two years relinquished practice, partly for health reasons, but also from doubts of his qualifications for his profession. He died at Richmond, Surrey of typhoid fever, on 30 July 1859. Roscoe married in 1855 Emily, daughter of William Malin of Derby.