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)