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WILFRID SCAWEN, an Irish poet, born at Crabbet Park, Sussex, in 1840. He was attaché of legation at The Hague, Athens, Madrid, Buenos Ayres, and elsewhere. He supported Arabi' Pasha in the revolt in Egypt in 1881; and was imprisoned in 1888 for his insurrectionary actions in Ireland.
He is author of "Sonnets and Songs by Proteus" (London, 1875); "The Love Sonnets of Proteus" (1881; new ed. 1885); "Ideas About India" (1885); and "Esther:" Young Man's Tragedy" (1895). "Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt" (1907); "Gordon at Khartoum" (1911); "The Land War in Ireland" (1912); "Complete Works" (1914). a