Charles James Billson (1858–1932) was a translator, lawyer, and collector of folklore.
Billson was born in Leicester, graduated from Oxford University, and died in Heathfield in Sussex. He is buried in All Saints Church yard.
His works include a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, and a noted paper on the Easter Hare. He began a correspondence with Herman Melville, after requesting a reading list from the author, and introduced him to works by the then obscure poet James Thomson. Billson forwarded his correspondence to Melville's biographers.[1]
Charles J. Billson was President (1893–94) of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.[2]
His publications included:-
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