[William Delafield]. English author, born at Laleham, near Staines, April 7, 1828. He was a son of Dr. Thomas Arnold, of Rugby, and brother of Matthew Arnold, and received his early education in his father’s school, entering Christ Church, Oxford, in 1846. He joined the Indian army in 1848, but was obliged to leave it in 1855, on account of ill health. He then became director of public education in the Punjab. He published a novel entitled Oakfield, or Fellowships in the East, and a translation of the first series of Dr. L. Wiese’s German Letters on English Education (1854). He died at Gibraltar on the 9th of April 1859.
