Background

Robert Paltock the only son of Thomas Paltock of St James's, Westminster, was born in 1697 in Little Hadham, England.

Career

Robert Paltock became an attorney and lived for some time in Clement's Inn, whence he removed, before 1759, to Back Lane, Lambeth.

Achievements

• Paltock owes his fame to his romantic Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751), which excited the admiration of men like Coleridge, Southey, Charles Lamb, Sir Walter Scott and Leigh Hunt. It has been several times reprinted, notably with an introduction by Mr A. H. Bullen in 1884. It was translated into French (1763) and into German (1767).

Works

• book

  • Peter Wilkins: Or, the Flying Islanders, a Melo-Dramatic Spectacle, in Two Acts (Classic Reprint)

Connections

Robert Paltock was married to Anna Skinner, through whom his son, also named Robert, inherited a small property at Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset.

Wife:

Anna Skinner