Horace Wyndham

Born in 1875, Horace Cowley Wyndham was an English journalist, author, and biographer who published widely from the late Victorian period into the mid-20th century. Records and library catalogs connect him with a long career in letters, and public-domain listings show that he remained an active and well-known writer across several decades.

He is especially remembered for biographies and historical works, including books on Lady Wilde, Montez, and the social world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Titles such as The Nineteen Hundreds and Victorian Sensation suggest the range of his interests: part literary, part historical, and always drawn to colorful lives and changing times.

Wyndham died in 1970. Today he is mainly of interest to readers who enjoy older narrative nonfiction, literary biography, and portraits of British society written by someone close enough to that world to describe it with both familiarity and flair.