Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

East India Company servant, historian, and poet. Alternative signature: “H. Prinsep, Esq.” Lived in India from 1809-1843 before returning to London. Served on the Council of India from 1858-1874. Married Sarah Monckton on 14 May 1835. Befriended and patronized G. F. Watts, through whom their house became a centre of artistic and literary culture in London, hosting Tennyson, Browning, and Thackeray, Du Maurier, Ruskin, and Burne-Jones, among others. Author of several volumes of poetry including *Specimens of Ballad Poetry Applied to the Tales and Traditions of the East* (1862). Biographical information: *ODNB*. (JS)