Richard Edgcumbe

Richard John Frederick Edgcumbe was a British courtier and writer, born in 1843 and died in 1937. Reliable catalog and reference sources connect him especially with books on Lord Byron, including Byron: The Last Phase, and describe him as the author of work related to the Byron memorial.

He is remembered less as a novelist than as a literary biographer and researcher. The surviving records found for him point to a sustained interest in Byron’s life, reputation, and papers, suggesting a writer drawn to documentary detail and literary history rather than fiction.

Edgcumbe also held the honorific MVO and is described in reference sources as a courtier, which gives his career an interesting dual shape: part public service, part literary scholarship. I couldn’t confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.