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WHIBLEY, CHARLES.
Adm. pens. (age 19) at JESUS, Apr. 1, 1879. [Eldest] s. of Ambrose, Esq., merchant (and Mary Jenn Davey). B. [Dec. 9, 1859], at Sittingbourne, Kent . School, Bristol Grammar.
Matric. Michs. 1879; Scholar; (Classical Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1883); B.A. 1884; M.A. 1912.
Hon. Fellow, 1912-30.
Leslie Stephen Lecturer, 1917.
Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh and St Andrews.
Sometime in the editorial department of Messrs Cassell and Co. Assisted W. E. Henley with The National Observer . On the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette and also contributed to the New Review . Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1894-6, where he made the acquaintance of many French poets and littérateurs, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Schwob and Paul Valéry. On his return to England, associated with Blackwood's Magazine, to which for over 25 years he contributed monthly articles entitled Musings without Method ; also contributed the Letters of an Englishman to the Daily Mail for some years.
Reader for Macmillan and Co. Married (1) 1896, Ethel, dau. of John Birnie Philip, the sculptor; (2) 1927, Philippa, dau. of Sir Walter Raleigh, Professor of English Literature at Oxford.
Author, In Cap and Gown; Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit; A Book of Scoundrels; Studies in Frankness; The Pageantry of Life; William Pitt; American Sketches; Lord John Manners and his Friends ; etc.
Died Mar. 4, 1930, at Hyères; buried at Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire , where he had lived for many years.
Brother of the next.
( Who was Who; D.N.B.; The Times, Mar. 5, 1930.)
Charles WHIBLEY
Approx. lifespan: 1859–1930
pens. aged 19 Jesus College adm1879:04:01
Eldest s. of Ambrose WHIBLEY Esq., merchant (and Mary Jenn Davey)
b. 1859:12:09 Sittingbourne, Kent ,
Sch: Bristol Grammar School Bristol, [Somerset],
Matric 1879:10MT:
Scholar
(ClassicalTrip., Pt II, 1st Class(1883);
BA 1884
MA 1912
Hon. Fellow 1912-30
Leslie Stephen Lecturer: 1917
Hon.LLD Edinburgh, [Scotland], and St Andrews, [Fife],
Sometime in the editorial department of Messrs Cassell and Company
Assisted W. E. Henley with The National Observer
On the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette and also contributed to the New Rev.iew
Paris correspondent [France], of the Pall Mall Gazette 1894-6, where he made the acquaintance of many French poets and littérateurs, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Schwob and Paul Valéry.
On his return to England, associated with Blackwood's Magazine to which for over 25 years he contributed monthly articles entitled Musings without Method ; also contributed the Letters of an Englishman to the Daily Mail for some years.
Reader for Macmillan and Company
m. (1) 1896 Ethel PHILIP dau. of John Birnie PHILIP the sculptor
m. (2) 1927 Philippa RALEIGH dau. of Sir Walter RALEIGH Professor of: English Literature OX, [Oxfordshire], [Oxfordshire],
Publ.: In Cap and Gown; Three Centuries of CB, ???, Wit; A Book of Scoundrels; Studies in Frankness; The Pageantry of Life; William Pitt; American Sketches; Lord John Manners and his Friends ; etc.
d. 1930:03:04 at Hyères [France],
buried Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire , where he had lived for many years.
brother of Leonard WHIBLEY (1882)
( Who was Who; D.N.B.; The Times 1930:03:05)
[add:]Portrait, by Sir G. Kelly, 1925-6, at Jesus College [:add]
[add:] C. Portraits : 31[:add]

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