British journalist, born in Ulster on the 7th of August 1866. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Balliol College, Oxford, in 1893 he joined the editorial staff of The Times, and early in 1899 became editor of the Johannesburg Star in the Transvaal. He played a useful part, as a publicist, on the side of the Reform party there, and when war came he joined the Imperial Light Horse and was one of the defenders of Ladysmith. Returning afterwards to his position on the Star, he did much to promote Lord Milner’s work of reconstruction, but resigned in 1903 owing to his hostility to the introduction of Chinese labour into the mines. He was then entrusted by The Times with the task of writing the official biography of Disraeli, and also did other work for that paper, becoming in 1908 a director of the company. Owing to ill-health the first volume of the Life of Beaconsfield (ultimately extending to six volumes) did not appear until 1910, and the second shortly before his death. It was completed by Mr. G. E. Buckle, formerly editor of The Times. Monypenny died in the New Forest on the 23rd of November 1912.
