Poet, playwright, and editor. Alternative signatures: “R. Warwick Bond,” “R. W. Bond.”
From Hindley, Lancashire, and later lived in Nottingham. Educated at Queen’s College,
Oxford. From 1886, lecturer for Oxford University extension scheme. Poetry volumes:
*The Immortals and Other Poems* (1890), *An Ode to the Sun, and Other Poems* (1892),
*At Stratford Festival: A Poem* (1896), *Another Sheaf* (1898). Published *Zenobia.
A Drama in Four Acts* in 1899. Edited *Saint George* (a Ruskin Society journal). Biographical
information: BL; Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 54. (SCM, AC)