Anthony Highmore (legal writer)

Anthony Highmore (1758–1829) was an English legal writer, known also for works on London charities and the Honourable Artillery Company.

The son of Anthony Highmore, he was born in London in 1768. In 1766 he was sent to school under Charles Burney at Greenwich. He went into practice as a solicitor in 1783.

Highmore was an abolitionist and friend of Granville Sharp. He also promoted Charles James Fox's act on the law of libel.

During the Napoleonic Wars alarm created by threatened invasion, Highmore became a member of the Honourable Artillery Company. The secretary to the London Lying-in Hospital, he advocated for the public dispensary movement as more cost-effective than hospitals.

Highmore died at Dulwich 19 July 1829.

In 1808 a bill was brought before parliament to prevent the spread of smallpox. No medical practitioner was to inoculate for the small-pox within three miles of any town, and provisions were made for isolating small-pox patients. Highmore, though a believer in the alternative of vaccination, opposed this bill in A Statement of some Objections to the Bill as amended by the Committee of the House of Commons to Prevent the Spreading of the Infection of the Small-Pox, 1808. Charles Murray replied in the same year in An Answer to Mr. Highmore's Objections.

Besides contributing to the Gentleman's Magazine, Highmore also wrote:

In 1876 A Ramble on the Coast of Sussex in 1782 was edited by Charles Hindley from a manuscript of Highmore.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "". Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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