Founded in 1842 by Dr. James W. Worthington, a former editor of the Tory Foreign Quarterly Review, who found its politics, following its acquisition by the publishing firm of Chapman and Hall in 1841, insufficiently conservative. He left to set up the rival Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review, whose name was later changed to the New Quarterly Review (see Wellesley Index, II, pp. 134-135n). Unlike its fellow Tory periodical, Blackwood's Magazine, the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review admired Turner and welcomed Modern Painters I (see Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review, October 1843).