Arthur Waugh

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Arthur Waugh was an English author, literary critic and publisher, and the father of Alec and Evelyn Waugh. Born 1866 at Midsomer Norton, educated at Sherborne School and New College Oxford where, in 1888, he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry for a ballad on the subject of Gordon of Khartoum. In 1892 he wrote the first biography of the poet, Alfred Tennyson published by William Heineman and in 1894 contributed to the first issue of the infamous Yellow Book. He was a columnist for the The Sun, a regular correspondent to the New York Critic and from 1906-1931 was literary critic for The Daily Telegraph. His published works include poetry, biography, literary criticism and an autobiography One Man's Road in 1931.

From 1902 to 1930 he was managing director of the publishing house Chapman and Hall about which he wrote a detailed history entitled A Hundred Years in Publishing 1930. He died at his home in Highgate in June 1943. Fourteen volumes of his diaries covering the period 1930 to his death are held in the Boston University Library.

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• One Man's Road: being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation by Arthur Waugh, 1931.
• My Father: Arthur Waugh in "The Early Years of Alec Waugh" by Alec Waugh, 1962.
• Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh, 2004.