Background
DESPREZ, Frank Son of Charles Desprez and grandson of Achille Victor Desprez, Officer of French Grenadiers.
DESPREZ, Frank Son of Charles Desprez and grandson of Achille Victor Desprez, Officer of French Grenadiers.
Studied at Bristol Grammar School.
Came to London, 1875. Wrote short plays, librettoes, and articles and poems for magazines. Went ranching in Western America for his health in 1882.
On the staff of The Era since 1885.
Plays: After All and In the Sulks (Opera Comique), Mock Turtles, The Carp, and Mistress Jarramie’s Genie (Savoy).
Quite an Adventure (Olympic). Round and Square and Brum (provinces), et cetera
Editor of The Era.
Clubs: Greenroom, Ordinis Prcpdieatorum = of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Ecclesiastical Title)
Spouse 1883, Jessie,daughter of late Captain Macqueen, 7th Hussars.
