Education
After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott, he became editor of the Sun (1845-1870), studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple, but thereafter devoted himself to literature.
After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott, he became editor of the Sun (1845-1870), studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple, but thereafter devoted himself to literature.
He edited Weekly Register, a Roman Catholic paper (1874-1881). Several volumes of poems, published previously in the forties, fifties, and sixties, provided the materials for his collected. In later years he gave himself largely to editorial work—chiefly complete editions of the greater English writers, memoirs, and critiques, and notably Burns (1874), Lamb (1875 and 1893), Moore (1879), Father Prout (1881), and Lord Lytton (1875, 1883, and 1898).
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