Henry Howarth Bashford

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Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (18801961) was a distinguished English physician, becoming doctor to George VI. He is now remembered as a writer, in particular of the satirical Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924), which was first published anonymously. He also wrote some popular poetry.

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  • The corner of Harley Street: being some familiar correspondence of Peter Harding, M.D. (1911)
  • Pity the poor blind (1917)
  • The Heroic Record of the British Navy (1920) with A. Hurd
  • Augustus Carp, Esq.|Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924)
  • The Happy Ghost and Other Stories (1925)
  • The Harley Street Calendar (1929)
  • Fisherman's Progress (1946)