Poet, editor, and translator. Studied at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar
in 1881. Worked as a equity draftsman and conveyancer. Became director of the Land
& House Property Corporation Ltd in 1904 and director of the Neuchatel Asphalt Co.
Ltd in 1906. Author of several volumes of poetry including *Song-words* (1888), *Lays
of Common Life* (1890), *An Oaten Flute and Other Versicles* (1897), *Rhymes of City
and Countryside, and Other Verse* (1907), and *Glimpses of the Twenties* (1909). Translator
of *Songs of Béranger* (1892). Edited *The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-1851*
(1912). Biographical information: *World Cat* <http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2013139027/>
(4 July 2021); Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 477. (CC)