Percy Addleshaw (1866 in
Bowdon, Cheshire – 1916) was an English
barrister
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and writer.
A graduate of
Christ Church,
Oxford
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, Addleshaw was called to the bar in 1893. He was an admirer and friend of
Roden Noel. He wrote articles, poems and reviews for various publications and, under the pseudonym of Percy Hemingway
published ''Out of Egypt'',
a volume of short stories (1894) and ''The Happy Wanderer and other verse''. In 1920 a posthumous collection of verse was published with a lengthy introduction by Arundel Osborne, titled ''Last Verses''.
Bibliography
* 1896
''The happy wanderer & other verse''* 1912
''The cathedral church of exeter. A description of its fabric and a brief history of the epispocal see''* 1916
''Sir Philip Sidney
References
Further reading
* ''A Victorian Anthology'', Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1895)
External links
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English male journalists
1866 births
1916 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
English male short story writers
English male poets
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