Surname: Waugh Forename(s): Arthur b. 24 August 1866. d. 26 June 1943. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Biographer, literary critic, poet, and publisher. Born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset.
Father of writers Alex Waugh and Evelyn Waugh. Educated at New College, Oxford. Mentored
by Edmund Gosse. Contributed to the Illustrated London News and the National Observer. Won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1888. Author of the biography Alfred Lord Tennyson (1892). Managing director (1902-1926) and chairman (1926-1936) of Chapman and Hall.
Literary critic for the Daily Telegraph (1906-1931). Biographical information: ODNB. (AC, CC)