Henry Fitz Randolph

Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria Henry Fitz Randolph

Victorian Poets, by Edmund Clarence Stedman, eleventh edition, 1886; English Poetesses, by Eric S. Robertson; Celebrities of the Century, edited by Lloyd Sanders, 1887; Men of the Reign, 1885, and Men of the Time, twelfth edition, 1887, both edited by Thomas Humphry Ward. The authors marked with an asterisk ) are still (1887) living. A rnold, Edwin, C. S. I. (1832). Educated at King s College, London, and University College, Oxford, where in 1852 he won the Newdigate prize by his English poem. The Feast of Belshazzar. Shortly after his graduation in honors in 1854 he was appointed Principal of the Government Sanscrit College at Poona, in the Bombay Presidency, and Fellow of the University of Bombay. He resigned this position in 1861 to become connected with The Daily Telegraph, of which he has been editor for many years. As editor of this paper he arranged in 1873 expedition of Mr. George Smith to conduct the excavation at Kouyunjik on the site of Nineveh, and a year later the expedition of Mr. Henry M. Stanley to A frica, which was undertaken at the joint expense of The Daily Telegraph and New York Herald.
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