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Percy Addleshaw
1866–1916
An English barrister who also wrote poetry, stories, and criticism, he moved easily between the legal world and the literary circles of late Victorian England. His work often carried a reflective, wandering spirit, especially in the poems he published under the name Percy Hemingway.
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About the author
Born in Bowdon, Cheshire, in 1866, Percy Addleshaw was an English barrister and writer educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1893, but alongside his legal career he built a literary life through poems, reviews, and articles for periodicals.
He was connected to the poet Roden Noel as both an admirer and a friend, and he also edited Noel's Selected Poems. Writing at times under the pseudonym Percy Hemingway, he published Out of Egypt, a collection of short stories, and The Happy Wanderer and Other Verse, which helped define his gentle, lyrical reputation.
Addleshaw died in 1916. A posthumous collection of his verse appeared a few years later, suggesting that his work continued to find readers after his death. No clear portrait could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so the image here is left blank.