Newbolt
SIR HENRY JOHN, English poet and author. Born at Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1862. Educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and Corpus Christi, Oxford. Was called to the bar in 1887, and practiced law until 1889.
Edited the "London Monthly Review," 1900-1904. His most celebrated poems dealing with martial valor and the sea are to be found in "Admirals All" (1897), and "The Island Race" (1898).
He has also published a novel "Taken from the Enemy" (1892); "Mordred," a tragedy; "Stories from Froissart" (1899); "Froissart in Britain" (1900); "The Old Country," romance (1906); "The New June" (1909) ; "Poems Old and New" (1912); "Book of Blue Seas" (1914); and "The Book of the Long Trail" (1919).