Percy Addleshaw Explained

Percy Addleshaw (1866 in Bowdon, Cheshire – 1916) was an English barrister and writer.

A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, Addleshaw was called to the bar in 1893. He was an admirer and friend of Roden Noel.^[1] He wrote articles, poems and reviews for various publications and, under the pseudonym of Percy Hemingway^[2] published Out of Egypt,^[3] a volume of short stories (1894) and The Happy Wanderer and other verse. In 1920 a posthumous collection of verse was published with a lenghty 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

Further reading

• A Victorian Anthology, Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1895)

Notes and References

1. The Literary World, Volume 57, (1898) James Clarke & Co., London
2. Book: Stedman. Edmund Clarence. Edmund Clarence Stedman. A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria, Volume 1. 1895. Houghton Mifflin. 679. 18 August 2016.
3. Web site: Out of Egypt: Stories from the Threshold of the East. Addleshaw. Percy. 1895.