English novelist, born on the 24th of July 1867. He was educated at Marlborough College and King’s College, Cambridge. He worked at Athens for the British Archæological Society from 1892 to 1895, and subsequently in Egypt for the Hellenic Society. In 1893 his society novel, Dodo, brought him to the front among the writers of clever fiction; and this was followed by other novels, notably The Vintage (1898), The Capsina (1899), Thorley Weir (1913), Dodo the Second (1914), David Blaize (1916), Mr. Teddy (1917) and The Countess of Lowndes Square (1920). He also wrote a one-act comedy, Dinner for Eight, which was successfully produced at the Ambassadors’ theatre, London, in March 1915.
