Percy Addleshaw

Born in 1866 in Bowdon, Cheshire, Percy Addleshaw was an English barrister and writer who studied at Christ Church, Oxford and was called to the bar in 1893. Alongside his legal career, he built a literary life that included journalism, poetry, reviews, and nonfiction.

He published some of his creative work under the pseudonym Percy Hemingway. His books include Out of Egypt, a collection of short stories, and The Happy Wanderer and Other Verse. He also wrote The Cathedral Church of Exeter and a study of Sir Philip Sidney.

Addleshaw was remembered as an admirer and friend of the poet Roden Noel, and he later edited Noel's selected poems. He died in 1916, leaving behind a varied body of work that moves between travel-minded fiction, verse, and literary history.