Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cory, Isaac Preston

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CORY, ISAAC PRESTON (1802–1842), miscellaneous writer, was a fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, proceeding B.A. in 1824 and M.A. in 1827. He was the author of: 1. ‘Ancient Fragments of the Phœnician, Chaldean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, Indian, Persian, and other writers, Greek and Latin,’ 2nd edit. 1832. 2. ‘Metaphysical Inquiry into the Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern Philosophy,’ 1833. 3. ‘Chronological Inquiry into the Ancient History of Egypt,’ 1837. 4. ‘Practical Treatise on Accounts, exhibiting a view of the discrepancies between the practice of the Law and of Merchants; with a plan for the Amendment of the Law of Partnership,’ 1839. He died at Blundeston, Suffolk, on 1 April 1842.

[Annual Register, lxxxiv. 261; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Notes and Queries, 5th ser. iv. 415.]