Arthur Waugh

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Arthur Waugh
Born	1866 Midsomer Norton
Died	1943 Highgate
Children	Alec and Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Waugh was an English author, literary critic, and publisher.

[edit] His Life

Waugh was born at Midsomer Norton in 1866, and was educated at Sherborne School, New College, Oxford and Oxford University where, in 1888 he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, for a ballad on the subject of Gordon of Khartoum.

In 1892 he wrote the first biography of the poet Alfred Tennyson, which was published by William Heineman. In 1894 he contributed to the first issue of the infamous Yellow Book. He was also a collumnist for The Sun. He was also a regular correspondent for the New York Critic, and from 1906 to 1931 he was a literary critic for The Daily Telegraph.

His published works include poetry, biographies, literary criticism, and an autobiography, titled One Man's Road in 1931.

From 1902 to 1930, he was managing director and chairman of the publishing house, Chapman and Hall, about which he wrote a detailed history titled A Hundred Years in Publishing in 1930. He died at his home in Highgate in June of 1943. Fourteen volumes of his diaries covering the period of 1930 to his death are held in the Boston University Library.

[edit] Bibliography

• One Man's Road: being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation by Arthur Waugh, 1931.
• My Father: Arthur Waugh in "The Early Years of Alec Waugh" by Alec Waugh, 1962.
• Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh, 2004.

[edit] External links

• "Arthur Waugh" on thepeerage.com