Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, editor, theological writer, and biographer. Alternative signature: W. H. Simcox. Brother of George Augustus Simcox and Edith Jemima Simcox. Author of theological publications including Language of the New Testament (1889) and The Revelation of St. John the Divine (1891). Wrote the first major biography of Barnabe Barnes, the patron of William Shakespeare. Contributed theological reviews to the Academy. Edited The Orations of Demosthenes and Aeschines on the Crown (1872) with his brother George Augustus. Biographical information: Byron Nelson, George Augustus Simcox (1841-1905), Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by William E. Freedman and Ira B. Nadel, Edwards Brothers Inc., 1985, pp. 237-38; ​Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Augustus_Simcox (22 April 2021). (CC)