Arthur W. Marchmont

Arthur W. Marchmont was an English writer and journalist, generally identified as Arthur Williams Marchmont, who lived from 1852 to 1923. Sources found during this search describe him as being born at Southgate, educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and later entering Lincoln's Inn before moving away from law.

He worked in journalism in London and in the provinces, editing the North Eastern Daily Gazette and the Lancashire Daily Post. By the mid-1890s, he appears to have shifted his main focus to fiction, and later references describe him as the author of roughly thirty-five novels.

Marchmont is best remembered for energetic popular fiction filled with suspense, romance, and political adventure. Surviving listings of his work include titles such as A Courier of Fortune, The Man Without a Memory, When I Was Czar, and The Queen's Advocate, which suggest the international settings and dramatic twists that helped define his style.