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Bulfinch, Thomas (1796–1867)| US banker and author. He spent his spare time studying natural history and literature, eventually writing books based on his extensive reading – Hebrew Lyrical History (1853), The Age of Chivalry (1858), Shakespeare Adapted for Reading Classes (1865). One title in particular, The Age of Fable (1855), gained wide fame; known as ‘Bulfinch's Mythology’, it introduced Greek and Roman mythology to generations of Americans who did not read Greek or Latin. |
| He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of the influential architect Charles Bulfinch; he tried his hand at various businesses, then ended up working in a bank 1837–67. |
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