author
Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford
1880–1961
Best known for the wickedly funny Augustus Carp, Esq., this English doctor-novelist had a sharp eye for pomposity and a gift for elegant satire. His writing blends medical-world observation, wit, and a very dry sense of humor.
5 Audiobooks
The Heroic Record of the British Navy: A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918
by Archibald Hurd, Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford
Half-Past Bedtime
by Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford
Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
by Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford
The Corner of Harley Street Being Some Familiar Correspondence of Peter Harding, M.D.
by Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford
Tommy Wideawake
by Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford
About the author
Trained as a physician and later knighted, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford balanced a serious medical career with a lively literary one. He served in prominent medical posts, including as Honorary Physician to King George VI, yet he is still widely remembered for his fiction and memoirs.
His most famous book is Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924), a satirical novel first published anonymously. The book’s mock-self-important narrator helped make it a lasting comic classic, and Bashford went on to write other novels, essays, and autobiographical works marked by the same polished, amused intelligence.
Born in London in 1880 and dying in 1961, Bashford wrote with the confidence of someone who knew both professional life and human folly from the inside. For readers, he offers something special: old-fashioned style without stiffness, and humor that still lands because it is so precise.