author
Horace Bleackley
1868–1931
Best known for turning lively corners of British history into readable, dramatic books, this English author also wrote fiction and literary studies. He moved easily between careful research and a storyteller’s sense of pace.
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Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
by Horace Bleackley
About the author
Horace William Bleackley was an English writer born in 1868 and died on July 30, 1931. Sources consistently describe him as a writer of fiction as well as history and literary research, and he also published under the pseudonym Tivoli.
His work ranged across biography, crime, and historical subjects, which helps explain why his books still surface in library and archive collections. Among the titles linked with him are studies of notable historical figures and episodes, along with at least some imaginative fiction.
Public reference sources agree on the broad outline of his career, but easily confirmed personal details beyond that are fairly limited, so it is safest to remember him mainly as a versatile early-20th-century English man of letters with a taste for vivid, research-based storytelling.