Irish author, born in Dublin on the 8th of November 1847 and educated at a private school there and at Trinity College. He entered the Irish civil service, to which his father also belonged, and wrote critical articles for various newspapers. He was called to the English bar, but in 1878 he joined Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum theatre and was for many years his secretary and finally his biographer. He wrote a number of novels, of which Dracula (1897) was the best known, as well as Personal Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving (1906). He died in London on the 20th of April 1912.
