Algernon Bastard

Algernon Bastard is associated with The Gourmet's Guide to Europe (1903), a collaborative guide to restaurants and dining culture across European cities. The book has remained in circulation through library archives and later reprints, and it is the work most clearly linked to his name.

Reliable biographical details about him are scarce. Major library and public-domain catalog records confirm the authorship of The Gourmet's Guide to Europe, often alongside Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis, but they offer little else about Bastard's life, career, or dates.

That lack of background makes him something of a literary ghost: remembered less through a personal story than through a single appealing book. For readers today, his name is tied above all to an early twentieth-century snapshot of European travel, taste, and restaurant culture.