b. 16 November 1853. d. 1906. Nationality: English.
Novelist, travel writer, and poet. Educated at Malvern College. Author of romantic
military novels. Lived in India for several decades. Married Lucy Ellinor Faddy. Biographical
information: Sandra Kemp, *Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion*, Oxford University
Press, 1997, p. 73; *Wikipedia*, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Eastwick_Compton>
(25 October 2021). (SCM, CC)