A. (Arnold) Safroni-Middleton

Born George Arnold Haynes Safroni-Middleton in Kent on September 3, 1873, he built an unusually wide-ranging career as a British composer, conductor, violinist, harpist, writer, and even amateur astronomer. He also published under forms of his name including Count Safroni and William H. Myddleton.

As an author, he is especially remembered for travel writing and fiction shaped by his experiences in the South Seas. Works associated with him include A Vagabond's Odyssey, Wine-Dark Seas and Tropic Skies, and South Sea Foam, books that helped give his writing its roaming, exotic atmosphere.

Safroni-Middleton died on November 7, 1950. Reliable sources confirm his literary and musical career, but I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.