Cape, George Augustus (M)

Surname: Cape
Forename(s): George Augustus
b. 1830. d. 1889. Nationality: English.
Poet and chartered accountant. Born in Lambeth, London. Initially worked in his father’s tailor business in Bond Street, London, and by 1861 became an accountant. Secretary of the Lambeth Baths and Wash Houses Co., and author of Baths and Wash Houses (1854). Moved to Kent and then Tunbridge Wells. Biographical information: Jeremy Parrott, Lohrli Revisited: Newly Identified Contributors to Household Words, Dickens Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 110-125 (pp. 114-15). (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 1
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Miasma 1853-12-10 Household Words Poet 1319