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GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846 )

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 383 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846 ) , Irish writer, was born in Dublin, the son of the bishop of Limerick. He was educated at Windermere College, and took high honours at Dublin University. In 1869 he entered the Civil Service as clerk in the
Home
  Office, where he remained until he became in 1874 an inspector of schools. He was a constant contributor of
prose
  and verse to the Spectator, The
Athenaeum
 , John
Bull
 , and Punch, and took a leading part in the revival of Irish letters. He was for several years president of the Irish Literary Society, and is the author of the famous ballad of " Father O'Flynn " and many other songs and
ballads
 . In collaboration with Sir C. V. Stanford he published Songs of Old Ireland (1882), Irish Songs and
Ballads
  (1893), the airs of which are taken from the Petrie MSS.; the airs of his Irish Folk-Songs (1897) were arranged by Charles
Wood
 , with whom he also collaborated in Songs of Erin (Igor). -
His brother, Charles L.
Graves
  (b. 1856), educated at Marl-borough and at Christ Church, Oxford, also became well known as a journalist, author of two volumes of parodies, The Hawarden
Horace
  (1894) and More Hawarden
Horace
  (1896), and of skits in
prose
  and verse. An admirable musical critic, his Life and Letters of Sir George Grove (1903) is a model biography.


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