British civil servant and man of letters, born at Lille in France on the 13th of Januarys 1840 and educated at a school kept by his father who was a clergyman. He entered the War Office during the Crimean War and became accountant-general in 1898, retiring in 1904. He was knighted that year and became a member of the Patriotic Fund Corporation. He was also vice-president of the London Library. As one of the editors of the Great Writers series, he contributed Lives of Dickens, Victor Hugo and Molière (1904) and also wrote Death’s Disguises and other Sonnets (1889) and translated the Chronicles of Villehardouin and Joinville. He died at Notting Hill, London, on the 14th of February 1912. (See authored articles: Edmond About, Berthold Auerbach, Émile Augier, Alphonse Daudet, Alexandre Dumas, Jr., Émile Zola.)
