Robert Eyres Landor was an English writer, dramatist, poet, and Anglican clergyman.
Background
Landor was the third son of Doctor Walter Landor, a physician, and his wife Elizabeth Savage, and thereby the brother of Walter Savage Landor. He was born at Warwick and went to Bromsgrove School, then as a scholar, to Worcester College, Oxford in 1797.
Career
He became a Fellow of Worcester College and a clergyman. He became vicar of Hughenden Buckinghamshire in 1817 until 1825, and was also Chaplain in ordinary to the Prince Regent. He became Rector of Nafford in Birlingham in 1829 and remained there until his death.
Birlingham is situated at the foot of the Bredan Hills and within sight of the Malverns.
He is noted as never having been absent from Sunday Duty and the church at Birlingham was restored with money left by him. He was somewhat reluctant to claim cr for his own work.
The drama The Count Arezzi of 1824 was at the time attributed to Byron and the story to Walter Savage Landor. He is also said to have tried to destroy copies of the dramas, and The Ferryman from 1841.
He spoke of his early travels in Italy and brought every scene before one.
If he "talked like a book", it was because his language was so beautiful and his descriptions so vivid and striking. His conversation made far more impression on me than did that of West.S.L., whose tremendous laughs I recall much better than his saying.".