Deazeley, John Howard, Rev. (M)

Surname: Deazeley
Forename(s): John Howard
b. 24 June 1854. d. 18 August 1924. Nationality: Welsh. VIAF.
Poet and translator. Pseudonym: “H. D.” Born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. Educated at Merton College, Oxford. Married Ellen St. Leger Blakeney on 28 July 1887. Published a metrical translation of The Odes of Horace (1894). The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem, published on 15 December 1877, gives is address as Merton College, Oxford (NLS Dep 341/371). Elected to the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society in 1876 (see their Proceedings, new series, vol. 3, 1880, p. 271). Biographical information: “Rev. John Howard Deazeley (1854-1924),”Ancestry; Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, vol. 1-2, p. 360. (AC, CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 3
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Desolate 1877-12-15 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6892
Two Hearts. (Suggested by the picture “In Memoriam”) 1878-04-27 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6956
The Two Roses 1878-05-25 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6959