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Yates (EDMUND HODGSON an English)

EDMUND HODGSON, an English journalist and novelist; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3, 1831; the son of the actor Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842), who from 1825 was manager of the Adelphi Theater. He was educated at Highgate and Düsseldorf, and from 1847 till 1872 had a position in the postoffice, being for 10 years chief of the missing letter department. He He lectured in the United States in 1872- 1873; was special correspondent at YATES Vienna Vienna , St. Petersburg, etc., of the New York "Herald" in 1873-1875; and London correspondent of the New York "Tribune" for a number of years. He wrote the following novels: "For Better, for Worse" (1863); "Broken to Harness" (1864); "Running the Gauntlet" (1865); "Kissing the Rod" (1886); "The Black Sheep" (1867); "Wrecked in Port" (1869); "Castaway" (1872); "A Waiting, etc., Race" (1872); and "Recollections and Experiences" (1885). He was editor of "Temple Bar," "Tinsley's" and other periodicals, and in 1874 founded, with Grenville Murray, very successful "society" weekly, "The World," which, for a libel on Lord Lonsdale, involved him in 1884 to two months' imprisonment. He died May 20, 1894. a