b. 27 April 1874. d. 14 December 1945. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, correspondent, memoirist, playwright, and novelist. Born in London. Educated
at Trinity College, Cambridge. War correspondent in Manchuria for the *Morning Post*
during the Russo-Japanese War, then stayed in St. Petersburg as a special correspondent.
Author of his autobiography *The Puppet Show of Memory* (1922), memoirs based on his
war experience, and two plays *The Black Prince* (1902) and *Gaston de Foix* (1903).
Appointed Order of the British Empire in 1918 for his service as a staff officer of
the Royal Air Force during World War I. Friends with Auberon Herbert. Biographical
information: *ODNB*. (CC)