English poet, born in France on the 6th of January 1845, and educated in France and Germany and at Oriel College, Oxford, afterwards entering the diplomatic service. He married in 1898 Annie E. Holdsworth, author of Joanna Traill, Spinster; The Years that the Locust Hath Eaten, and other novels. He published a number of volumes of poetry, as well as a translation of Dante’s Inferno, and (with his wife) Forest Notes (1899). He died at Florence on the 7th of September 1907.
