English author, born in London in 1828. He devoted his whole life to literature, and besides contributing to magazines, published Shakespeare’s England (1856); Songs of Cavaliers and Roundheads (1857); Life in Spain (1859); Turkish Life and Character (1860); British Artists from Hogarth to Turner (1860); Haunted London (1865); and Historical and Legendary Ballads (1876). He died in London on the 11th of June 1876.