[Sir]. English poet and editor of Punch, educated at Shrewsbury school and Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the classical tripos in 1883; in the next year he became a master at Rossall school; and in 1890 he was appointed professor of literature at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1897. He was introduced to Punch in 1894, with his “Rhyme of the Kipperling,” a parody of Rudyard Kipling’s “Rhyme of the Three Sealers.” He also wrote for The National Observer and The World. In 1894 he published a volume of parodies which is a classic of its kind, Horace at Cambridge, followed by The Battle of the Bays (1896), In Cap and Bells (1899), Borrowed Plumes (1902), A Harvest of Chaff (1904). He joined the staff of Punch in 1897, and shortly afterwards became assistant-editor, succeeding Sir F. C. Burnand as editor in 1906. He was knighted in 1914. His later volumes include War Time (1915); Made in England (1916) and From the Home Front (1918), mainly reprints of verses contributed to Punch. At the beginning of the World War he joined the “Veterans” corps of the former Inns of Court Volunteers, later known as the Inns of Court Reserve Corps (2nd batt. of the County of London Volunteer Regiment). He was gazetted lieutenant in 1916. See also “Pro Patria,” “To Belgium in Exile,” “In Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts” and “Coming out.”
