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TRAILL, HENRY DUFF (1842-1900) , British author and journalist, was born at Blackheath on the 14th of August 1842. He belonged to an old Caithness family, the Trains of Rattar, and his father, James Traill, was stipendiary magistrate of Greenwich and Woolwich. H. D. Traill was sent to the Merchant Taylors' School. He rose to be head of the school and obtained a scholarship at St John's College, Oxford. He was destined for the profession of medicine and took his degree in natural sciences in 1865, but then read for the bar, being called in 1869. In 1871 he received an appointment in the education office which left him leisure to cultivate his gift for literature. In 1873 he became a contributor to the Pall
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Greenwood . He followed Greenwood to the St James's Gazette
Pall
paper up to 1895. In the meantime he had also joined the staff of the Saturday Review, to which he sent,' amongst other writings, weekly verses upon subjects of the hour. Some of the best of these he republished in 1882 in a volume called Recaptured Rhymes, and others in a later collection of Saturday Songs (189o). He was also a leader-writer on the Daily Telegraph, and acted for a time as editor of the (Sunday) Observer. In 1897 he became first editor of Literature, when that weekly paper (afterwards sold and incorporated with the Academy) was established by the proprietors of The Times, and directed its fortunes until his death. Traill's long connexion with journalism must not obscure the fact that he was a man of letters rather than a journalist. He wrote best when he wrote with least sense of the burden of responsibility. His playful humour and his ready wit were only given full scope when he was writing to please himself. One of his most brilliant jeux d'espril was a pamphlet which was published without his name soon after he had begun to write for the newspapers
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liam III. (1888), Shaftesbury (1886), Strafford (1889), and Lord Salisbury (1891); he compiled a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer (1896); and after a visit to Egypt he published a volume on the country, and in 1897 appeared his book on Lord Cromer, the man who had done so much to bring it back to prosperity. Of these the literary studies are the hest, for Trail,' possessed great critical insight. He published two collections of essays: Number Twenty (1892), and The New Fiction (1897). In 1865 his Glaucus; a tale of a Fish, was produced at the Olympic Theatre with Miss' Nellie Farren in the part of Glaucus. In conjunction with Mr Robert Hichensleft in MS. and presumably passed with the rest of his library into the hands of his brother Philip. They then became apparently the possession of the Skipps of Ledbury, Herefordshire. When the property of this family was dispersed in 1888 the value of the MSS. was unrecognised, for in 1896 or 1897 they were discovered by Mr W. T. Brooke on a street bookstall. Dr Grosart bought them, and proposed to include them in his edition of the works of Henry Vaughan, to whom he was disposed to assign them. He left this task uncompleted, and Mr Bertram Dobell, who eventually secured the MSS., was able to establish the authorship of Thomas Traherne. The the Mercies Social England in 18931898; he wrote, for several series ofThey were biographies, studies of Coleridge (1884), Sterne (1882), Wil- he wrote The Medicine Man, produced at the Lyceum in 1898. He died in London on the 21st of February 1900. End of Article: TRAILL, HENRY DUFF (1842-1900) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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