Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, journalist, and assistant keeper of the South Kensington Museum (1864-1894). Alternative signature: R. F. Sketchley. Born in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford. Staff member of Punch (1868-1880). Biographical information: Lohrli 432; Curran Index; Jeremy Parrott, More Newly Identified Contributors to Household Words, Dickens Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 189-206 (p. 201). (AC)