Peter L. Courtier

Peter Lionel Courtier (1776-1847) was an English poet.

Life
Courtier was educated at a dissenting academy at Hammersmith under the Rev. Morgan Jones, but he gave up his intention of becoming a clergyman to work as a clerk in the publishing firm of Law. He founded an oratorical society called the "School of Eloquence" in 1797 with Richard Alfred Davenport and John Britton.

Courtier enjoyed modest success as poet with his Pleasures of Solitude (1800). For a brief time he was the editor of the Universal Magazine, a position he lost when imprisoned for debt in 1807. Afterward he began a second career as a journalist, supplementing a small salary with donations from the Literary Fund.