Surname: Sketchley Forename(s): Richard Forster b. 1827. d. 1911. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, journalist, and assistant keeper of the South Kensington Museum (1864-1894).
Alternative signature: “R. F. Sketchley.” Born in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Educated
at Exeter College, Oxford. Staff member of Punch (1868-1880). Biographical information: Lohrli 432; Curran Index; Jeremy Parrott, “More Newly Identified Contributors to Household Words,” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 189-206 (p. 201). (AC)