Clive Phillipps-Wolley

Born in Dorset, England, Clive Phillipps-Wolley was a British-born writer and public official who later settled in British Columbia. Sources agree that he wrote widely across poetry, fiction, travel, and sporting literature, and that he spent part of his early career in official and legal work before building a literary reputation.

He is especially remembered for books drawn from travel and field sports, including accounts of the Crimea, the Caucasus, and western Canada. Reference sources and biographical entries also connect him with well-known poems such as The Sea Queen Wakes and Coronation Hymn, showing the range of his writing beyond adventure and sport.

After moving to Canada in the late 19th century, he became part of the cultural life of British Columbia while continuing to publish. That mix of imperial traveler, outdoorsman, and prolific man of letters gives his work a distinctly period feel and helps explain why he still appears in literary and historical reference collections today.